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concert pitch

Noun

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the pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances; usually assigns 440 Hz to the A above middle C

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Azerrad, 1994. p. 231–32 From 1992, Cobain and Novoselic would tune their guitars to E flat for studio and live performances (up until then, their live tunings were to concert pitch ). Source: Internet

As such, they have always been fully chromatic, so no such tradition took hold, and trombone parts have always been notated at concert pitch (with one exception, discussed below). Source: Internet

Instruments that "transpose at the octave" are not playing in a different key from concert pitch instruments, but sound an octave higher or lower than written. Source: Internet

Most music for the tuba is written in bass clef in concert pitch, so tuba players must know the correct fingerings for their specific instrument. Source: Internet

The tin whistle is not a transposing instrument - for example, music for the D tin whistle is written in concert pitch, not transposed down a tone as would be normal for transposing instruments. Source: Internet

The concert pitch of that note is what determines how we refer to the transposition of that instrument. Source: Internet

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