[sdiy] confused about keyboard ranges

[Glen]

At 11:45 PM 6/24/04 , Mark Romberg wrote:
>im confused about what octave refers to what.  in the synth world i 
>hear keys/notes referred to as "C0" or "Gb3".  can i assume that C0==8' 
>range from an organ, or the same key a piano is in, or is it calibrated 
>differently?

The lowest C note in an 8' organ pipe rank is actually C2, and has a
frequency of 65.4063913251  Hertz. The C0 note on a pipe organ is actually
a 32' pipe, and has a frequency of 16.3515978313 Hertz.

You might find the following links helpful:

http://geir.kilsti.com/midi_synth/docs/notefreq.txt

http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/octaveregisters/octaveregis
ters.html


later,
Glen