Re: [Harp-L] Something I've Started Noticing

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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:08:56 -0500
From: "samblancato" <samblancato@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Something I've Started Noticing
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>

>Hello People, 
>I'm wondering about something I've started noticing with regards to the
>pitch of my harp playing.  I started playing along with two songs I have on
>CDs the other day, LW's "Juke" and James Cotton's "You Don't Have To Go".  I
>sound off; in pitch.  Juke, E calls for an A harp.  Can it be that these
>cuts were recorded slow so that when played back for recording they are
>slightly higher in pitch or do I need to tune my harps up a hair? - just to
>brighten up the pitch a little?  Has anybody ever noticed this sort of
>thing?
>Sam Blancato, Pittsburgh

Although recorded in E, "Juke" is noticably flatter than Concert A=440Hz.  
  When I sat down to learn the tune, first thing I did was retune the
track.  For the record I learnt it on a 7 Limit Just Intonation tuned
diatonic, A=442Hz.
  It's not the only recording that's out of tune. 
-- G.