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What is the 440 in a 440A in music?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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440 describes the tuning of the instruments. When the tone A above middle C is tuned to 440 Hertz (cycles of the sound wave per second), and the other notes are tuned in intervals accordingly, it is known as being tuned to 440.

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