you all probably already know that Italian musicians don't use alphabetical names for absolute pitches; we once did, up on a time, but alphabetical names unfortunately got substituted by the sol-fa nomenclature, which was a marvellous system (as first used by Guido d'Arezzo) for the identification of the single note's tonal properties.
Actually, Guido's system was movable do rather than fixed do. That's what his hexachordal system is all about. Do (or "ut" in Guido's time) could be on C, F, or G.
These, (the sol-fa names) became the names for absolute pitches. This is all just to state that the C4 (middle C) in Italy, is C3, and it's called DO3.
Aha! There goes the standardness of the so-called standard!!
John
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