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  2. A440 (pitch standard) - Wikipedia

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    The A440 standard is not universally adhered to. Early-music ensembles continue to use older, lower pitch levels. Leonard Bernstein often tuned the New York Philharmonic to A442, leading to complaints from the piano tuners’ union, although he claimed both the New York and Boston orchestras had used this higher pitch for years.

  3. Book size - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, a book printed as an octavo, but bound with gatherings of four leaves each, is called an octavo in 4s. [5]: 28 In determining the format of a book, bibliographers will study the number of leaves in a gathering, their proportion and sizes and also the arrangement of the chain lines and watermarks in the paper. [4]: 84–107

  4. Apple's latest coffee-table book is aimed at music lovers and ...

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    Apple Music released a $450 coffee-table book of its top 100 albums. The book, limited to 1,500 copies, includes album analyses and facts. Apple partnered with Assouline, known for luxury books ...

  5. Piano key frequencies - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the fundamental frequencies in hertz (cycles per second) of the keys of a modern 88-key standard or 108-key extended piano in twelve-tone equal temperament, with the 49th key, the fifth A (called A 4), tuned to 440 Hz (referred to as A440).

  6. Scientific pitch notation - Wikipedia

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    Scientific pitch notation is often used to specify the range of an instrument. It provides an unambiguous means of identifying a note in terms of textual notation rather than frequency, while at the same time avoiding the transposition conventions that are used in writing the music for instruments such as the clarinet and guitar.

  7. Octavo - Wikipedia

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    Octavo metrics compared to the folio and quarto. Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", [1] (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections (or gatherings) of a book.

  8. Category:Music books - Wikipedia

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    Songbook (Nick Hornby book) Songs in the Key of Z; Songs of Praise (hymnal) The Songs of the Tyne by Walker; Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand; Sounds Like London; A Southern Music: The Karnatik Story; Space Opera (1996 anthology) Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music; The Stereo Record Guide; The Story of ...

  9. Paper size - Wikipedia

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    A popular size for books, dubbed AB, combines the shorter edges of A4 and B4. Another two with an aspect ratio approximating 16:9 are 20% narrower variants of A6 and B6, respectively, the latter resulting from cutting JIS B1 into 4 × 10 sheets (thus "B40").