Show MUSIC PITCH AGREED UPON Sound Your A Now Will Hill Have Some M Meaning aning As a meAns mean of at ending the eon con con con- confusion confusion fusion which has haa existed In the thi musical world because of the lack ot of standard pitch to which all or- or orchestra or orchestral chestra bands and instrumentAl would adhere the Na Bureau for the Advancement Advance Advancement ment of ot Music has sent a letter to tc leading Iodine orchestral and oper open operatic operatic alit conductors to ascertain the consensus us of opinion among them their concerning a pitch of ot H 0 vibration Lions tion per pcr second for the A above middle C as the one to which they will have their men tune This la Is the pitch used In tn recent years ears by manufacturers of at all band instruments wood wind and percussion Instruments and by bythe bythe bythe the large largs majority of ot piano manu manu- manufacturers manufacturers and It tt was wa also alao recommended recommended recommended mended t f universal adoption after investigation by the committee com com- committee committee on standard pitch of or the th music Industries chamber of at com corn commerce merce representing the tho various branches of ot musical instrument manufacturing MANY Y 1 IN FAVOR Among AmonI those who have written favoring the standard are Frederick Stock director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra tra Rudolph nudolph director of at the St StLouis Loula 1 Symphony Orchestra Fritz Reiner Cincinnati Symphony Or chestra Walter alter Henry Rothwell Orchestra of ot Lo Loa Angeles Ossip be- be De Detroit troit Symphony Alfred Hertz Hertl San Francisco Symphony John Philip Sousa and a a long list let of at prominent rent nent educators and conductors None of ot the tho so BO far I ed have been against the propos propos- pro proposed proposed ol ed standard so 10 that there Is ts ev- ev every e ery person to believe that It Win will willbe willbo bo be In tn general use uso shortly and that there will no longer be bo contusion confusion on the subject The pitch Is 1 slightly higher International than the called so-called pitch of vibrations for the same note adopted by more or orless orless r less concerted action of musi- musi musicians mu l-clana l clans and musical Instrument manufacturers toward the end of at atthe the century Tho The manufacturers manufacturers wore were willing enough to reo re- re retain lain tain the old pitch but unfortunately unfortunately It turned ou out that many In Individual tans mUana mU ana especiallY players of ot wind instruments and andI I worst wont l of at all wind Instrument players In the tha great orchestras I bad tad an uncontrollable Itch for tor playing at a higher pitch than their colleagues colleague Piano Plano soloists too in their search for a a more brilliant tone frequently insisted upon a higher tuning ot of their instruments In- In Instrument In Instrument strument As a II consequence of this practice and of ot similar r caus taus- causes cs es the band Instrument makers were always at t sea CIL over the ques- ques question question tion tion of at pitch The United States government had one standard while the concert bands and the big symphony orchestras each had th their lr own although they dif dit- differed dif differed but slightly from one an- an another another an another other The Tho result was a 8 steady tendency upward The contusion confusion Was brought to a head during the war when the government bought a great grest quantity of instruments Instrument and the pitch required for these did not correspond with that of at other Instruments already in use MASTER STER FORKS FORTIS At last in 1924 the National Association of Piano Plano Tuners at their annual convention passed pissed a resolution to petition the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce to appoint a committee to investigate investigate gate the subject of musical pitch pitchIn pitchin pitchIn In the United States and attempt to find II a a solution It was this committee which adopted the standard All the Industries con con- concerned con concerned have signified their intention Intention tion of at upholding the new stand stand- standard standard standard ard and arrangements have been made to Insure that these Indus indus- industries tries shall not make any change chango for ten years r ft rt t least Master tuning forks rated to within one hundredth one hundredth of a vibration are arenow arenow arenow now being prepared One will be deposited with the U S S Bureau Dureau ot of Standards In Washington one with the Music Industries Cham Cham- Chamber Chamber Chamber ber of at Commerce and others with the tuners and musical Instrument Instrument ment ment manufacturers association |