#FREE ONLINE FLUTE TUNER PROFESSIONAL#
And all the notes played on a flute with a reference pitch of 440Hz are slightly lower than a 442Hz flute, and so on.ĭepending on the needs of the player (such as which country they perform in or whether they play in orchestras), professional flutes can be custom designed to reference pitches, often between A440 and A446. This means an A played at 440Hz is ever so slightly lower than an A played at 442Hz. The old pitch standard was 440Hz although it’s unclear when the change actually began. Many modern flutes are now designed to play a low octave A note at 442Hz. However, there is some confusion if you search online as to the reference pitch of flutes. Every flute is designed to play all of its notes, relative to a reference pitch. To calibrate our flutes to play at this correct ‘reference’ value and play notes at their intended frequencies, it’s necessary for us to make some minor adjustments both in our own playing technique as well as to the flute itself.
Playing notes higher than their correct pitch is called ‘sharp’ and playing notes lower than their correct pitch is called ‘flat.’ Reference pitch of flutes When a musician plays any note, it’s possible for the note to vary or ‘bend’ slightly in sound wave frequency to be either higher or lower than its correct value. A high frequency sound wave produces a high pitch and a low frequency sound wave produces a low pitch. It’s also referred to as the pitch of a sound. Frequency (measured in Hertz or Hz for short) is the number of waves that occur in one second. For flute, it occurs when we blow across the embouchure hole and make the air blown into the flute tube vibrate. Sound travels in waves and is produced when an instrument vibrates. Musical instruments produce many sounds (musical notes) that each have a unique frequency heard by the human ear. But what does it mean to be ‘in tune’ and how do we do it? This blog will get a bit scientific and look at how ‘sound’ works, explain why tuning is important, what affects it, and includes my personal step-by-step video guide to flute tuning. As a beginner, you might not know that your flute technically needs to be tuned every time you play it.
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