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Elise Hall and A Modern History of the Saxophone
The following is an interview with Dr. Adrianne Honnold, an ethnomusicolgy professor at Lewis University. Her book The Legacy of Elise Hall: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and the Saxophone is available here online for free. The role of establishing one’s unique sonic profile That’s something that is really important to a lot of jazz musicians
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Why is “A” 440Hz?
It is generally considered that when tuning one’s instrument to tune the note A4 (“A” in the fourth octave) to 440Hz. Western music is based on the 12 notes in the chromatic scale (A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#) with each note being assigned a frequency. Each notes also
