Re: Idle curiousity about ancient Lily-lore

[David Kastrup]

Wols Lists <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/03/13 02:40, Jim Long wrote:
>
>> Why is "a" A 220, and not A 440?
>
> It isn't :-)

It is.

> Read up on "concert pitch" - the wikipedia article is interesting, not
> only in the fact that concert pitch has a single-digit ISO standard to
> its credit!
>
> And oh, I think you mean lilypond's "a".

It's the same as Helmholtz "a".

> I think there, it's the fact that "c" is middle C.

Middle C is c'.

> (Or have I got that wrong? I always use relative notation so I can
> never remember the absolute ,s and 's)

I have a hard time imagining what you'd be writing after \relative if
you can't even remember the name of middle C.

Without knowing at least _one_ absolute pitch, anchoring \relative will
be a challenge.

-- 
David Kastrup