Changes to Orchestra tuning.


Berlin Philharmonic has just changed the tuning frequency from 445 to 443. Any ideas why?

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Showing 1 response by elliottbnewcombjr

My guess is that it is specific to that hall, based on someone having ’new’ measurements made, as I say, just a guess, but I can imagine the process of getting an institution to change a fundamental, there must be a convincing argument for the change, not so convincing for the status quo

There is a chart showing the history of musical pitch here

music theory online : pitch, temperament & timbre

and there is this

history of piano tuning