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::::: It doesn't. [[User:FloraC|FloraC]] ([[User talk:FloraC|talk]]) 01:11, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

:::::: Half of 127 is 63.5 note 63 is Eb, not D. If you choose D as a reference because it's halfway up from A through the musical alphabet, why not just choose A anyway, since your reference is justified by another reference? Anyway, in an octave-based system, halfway up the A scale is the tritone, which is closer to Eb than to D. If you are specifying a heptatonic scale, then it depends on which heptatonic scale you use as a template, which introduces even more references. I mean, if you can get it to catch on, I'll be happy to go with the flow, but I'm just not following your logic on why D should be a universal reference pitch.

:::::: In my opinion, whichever is already established as the most universally accepted reference pitch should be the reference pitch to which we try to conform until we can think of something that stands on its own logical ground as being better. I do sometimes see D or C as a defined reference pitch, but the vast majority of tuning forks, keyboards, pitch pipes, electronic tuners, etc., use A4=440 Hz as a standard, in my experience. Maybe it's a North American thing, but I don't think it is. I'm not married to the idea, but I just don't really get why this community seems so insistent on changing the reference pitch to C, unless it's more convenient for a specific circumstance, like MIDI. --[[User:Bozu|Bozu]] ([[User talk:Bozu|talk]]) 15:46, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

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 ::::: It doesn't. [[User:FloraC|FloraC]] ([[User talk:FloraC|talk]]) 01:11, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
+:::::: Half of 127 is 63.5 note 63 is Eb, not D.  If you choose D as a reference because it's halfway up from A through the musical alphabet, why not just choose A anyway, since your reference is justified by another reference?  Anyway, in an octave-based system, halfway up the A scale is the tritone, which is closer to Eb than to D.  If you are specifying a heptatonic scale, then it depends on which heptatonic scale you use as a template, which introduces even more references.  I mean, if you can get it to catch on, I'll be happy to go with the flow, but I'm just not following your logic on why D should be a universal reference pitch.
+:::::: In my opinion, whichever is already established as the most universally accepted reference pitch should be the reference pitch to which we try to conform until we can think of something that stands on its own logical ground as being better.  I do sometimes see D or C as a defined reference pitch, but the vast majority of tuning forks, keyboards, pitch pipes, electronic tuners, etc., use A4=440 Hz as a standard, in my experience.  Maybe it's a North American thing, but I don't think it is.  I'm not married to the idea, but I just don't really get why this community seems so insistent on changing the reference pitch to C, unless it's more convenient for a specific circumstance, like MIDI. --[[User:Bozu|Bozu]] ([[User talk:Bozu|talk]]) 15:46, 4 June 2020 (UTC)