Haven’t ever seen this before . . .

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Haven’t ever seen this before . . .

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Normally we tuners measure pitch by “A”. Concert pitch is “A440”. That is the frequency of concert pitch. The Crown piano measures pitch by “C 517.3” which comes out to be somewhere around A438ish. I wonder why they did this??

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