Concert pitch is the pitch reference to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance. Concert pitch may vary from ensemble to ensemble...

York and Boston orchestras had used this higher pitch for years. A440 is widely used as concert pitch in the United Kingdom and the United States. In...

pitch, but sounds of indefinite pitch do not neatly correspond to any specific pitch. A pitch standard (also concert pitch) is the conventional pitch...

instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano). For...

Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone....

media help. Scientific pitch, also known as philosophical pitch, Sauveur pitch or Verdi tuning, is an absolute concert pitch standard which is based...

Scientific pitch notation (SPN), also known as American standard pitch notation (ASPN) and international pitch notation (IPN), is a method of specifying...

prevailing key. Historically, concert pitch has varied. For an instrument in equal temperament tuned to the A440 pitch standard widely adopted in 1939...

regardless of their relation to concert pitch (A = 440 Hz) Correctly sing a melody by following musical notation, by pitching each note in the melody according...

on how concert pitch was set at the time and place the organ or harpsichord was made). Eight-foot pitch may be contrasted with four-foot pitch (4′; one...

the octave is generally written at the transposed pitch, but is sometimes seen written at concert pitch using an octave clef. This section shows a complete...

write music notation transposed relative to concert pitch. Transposing instrument Macpherson, Ewan. "The Pitch and Scale of the Great Highland Bagpipe"....

and following song "Concert Pitch" "deliriously upbeat confections". Sarah H. Grant of Consequence of Sound likened "Concert Pitch" to a "dance-floor tantrum...

sixth above concert pitch: the tenor horn notation for middle C represents the E♭ below middle C in concert pitch (E♭3 in scientific pitch notation). The...

instruments, reading at concert pitch in bass clef, with higher notes sometimes being notated in tenor clef. They are pitched in B♭, an octave below the...

smaller piano receives a greater stretch relative to the fundamental pitch, only the concert grand's octaves can be fully widened so that triple octaves are...

compose music for concert band. Wind instruments at that time were often difficult to play in tune and had difficulty in switching pitch and rhythm fast...

builders and players Diapason normal, the official French standard of concert pitch Diapason, a 1978 novel by Thomas Sullivan Tuning fork (diapason in Italian...

Scale and pitch The standard pitch has varied widely over history, and this has affected how flutes are made. Although the standard concert pitch today is...

which exist in pitches ranging from D through D♭, C, and B down to B♭. Pipemakers before the Taylors had, however, built concert pitch pipes using the...

following is a list of E♭ instruments, or instruments for which the concert pitch of E♭ is notated as C in standard terminology. They are listed by the...

above middle-C) for a total of 4.5 octaves. The lowest bell is an F♯ concert pitch, and weighs 13,400 pounds.[1] Each bell is engraved with the year it...

worldwide. Its name comes from the Apollo program and the frequency of concert pitch — the A note at 440 Hz, often denoted as "A440", and the Sequential...

in the concert pitch ( C ) a minor third higher than the written pitch; therefore, to get the sounding pitch one must transpose the written pitch up a minor...

specific pitch (see Helmholtz resonator) Covering holes lowers the pitch; uncovering holes raises the pitch Blowing more softly lowers the pitch; blowing...

band had performed live in concert pitch. They began tuning down either a half step or full step as well as concert pitch. Sometimes all three tunings...

of the saxhorn. Most music for the tuba is written in bass clef in concert pitch, so tuba players must know the correct fingerings for their specific...

tends to have pitches with simpler mathematical ratios to each other. Western music defines pitches around a central reference "concert pitch" of A4, currently...

with a valve in F. All these instruments are notated in bass clef at concert pitch. The bass tuba is commonly available in F and E♭, while contrabass tubas...

English concert pitch, which was by then half a tone higher than elsewhere in Europe and a full tone higher than in the age of Gluck. The pitch of the...