440Hz pipes

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I should mention that pipers often get into terminology issues when playing with "normal" musicians, in the matter of pitch vs key.

(Highland pipers would call these four clarinets 466, 469, 440, and 442 respectively, which "normal" musicians would find strange.)

So in "normal" musical terms, the chanter that pipers call a "466 chanter" is in the key of B flat, in the pitch of A=440.

The difference arises because "normal" musicians use A as the reference note, while pipers use whatever the so-called "low a" happens to be as the reference note (usually somewhere around B flat).

I'm a trombone player. Do I count as a "normal" musician?

In concert band settings, we tune to Bb, which drives the oboe players crazy.