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Cleveland tuned to A = 440. Szell was such a bear on tuning that he had Norman Pickering build him a system consisting of a calibrated 440Hz tuning fork in a temperature-controlled enclosure with a microphone connected to an amplifier that was connected to a horn loudspeaker that beamed the 440 Hz tone on demand at the orchestra.

Norman Pickering was there. You were not. He emailed me. He did not email you.

You have not read my article.

But you need to give an opinion.

I got an email last night from someone in audio who was considering leaving audio for a new career.

Any guesses why?

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The Cleveland Orchestra tuned RELIABLY to 440. I have gigs of stored data from non-EMI Cleveland recordings that are at (or in one case below) 440. When Oistrakh played with Richter live at Carnegie Hall--dead nuts 440. Oistrakh Yampolsky Paris Beethoven Complete violin/piano sonatas. Dead nuts 440.

I am sure that Oistrakh could play in tune at A = 443 of A = 445 for Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic--and I corresponded with them about this and they were very helpful.

BUT IN CLEVELAND, OISTRAKH PLAYED AT 440.

EMI SCREWED UP. INNOCENTLY OR CULPABLY.

I AM RIGHT.

THE PEASANTS WITH PITCH PIPES, UNITED CANNOT BE DEFEATED.*

Have a nice day.

JM

*Does anyone get that?



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