Posted by Roger Lewis on December 05, 2002 at 08:18:47:
In Reply to: mirafone pitch posted by MrKun on December 03, 2002 at 18:06:08:
I've been in contact with Markus Theinert about this very issue and it was explained to me that the pitch in most of Europe is A-443. Many American orchestras play at A-442 and it's kind of interesting to see a person come in to try out a horn with their tuner set to A-440 (I guess to be sure they can play with an older piano).
Miraphone builds special instruments for the US pitched at A-440 but their European instruments are built to A-443. Several oother manufacturers horns that I have in stock seemed to be pitched a bit on the high side but they are quite workable with the tuning slides at covering most situations that may arise.
Have a great one.
Roger