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The A440 option on your metronome is to produce the note of A at 440 HZ. It's on the metronome to help you to tune your voice to pitch of the note of A as a starting point.

Specifically A440 is the A in the fourth octave (in orders words A4, the A above middle C).

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440 Hz. It's the frequency of the A note (above middle C)

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Musical standard "A" is at 440 hertz. Sometimes different frequencies are chosen for A. 439 hertz is just one of them.

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