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Article #4140Re: Interested in "magical" tones!
From: Dan Peters
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:07
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:07
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bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes: >Actually during the Baroque era the standard was about A=415 Hz. This >is a fairly large difference (half a semitone?) It's almost exactly a semitone lower. (If you tune to A=440 Hz, a G# will be about 415.3 Hz, assuming an equal-tempered scale.) -- ----------------- Gutted - Flame NA
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!physics.ubc.ca!peters From: peters@physics.ubc.ca (Dan Peters) Subject: Re: Interested in "magical" tones! Message-ID: <peters.717822425@physics.ubc.ca> Sender: news@unixg.ubc.ca (Usenet News Maintenance) Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada References: <Bv2LpK.44r@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <19sv62INNgid@agate.berkeley.edu> <Sep.28.19.19.04.1992.13725@ruhets.rutgers.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:07:05 GMT Lines: 11