Klarinet Archive - Posting 000183.txt from 1994/10

From: Timothy Tikker <tjt@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: the Clarinet d'amour, old pitch
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 03:33:09 -0400

On Mon, 17 Oct 1994, Cary Karp wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Oct 1994, Fred McKenzie wrote:
>
> It certainly could be as low as 392. On the basis of all the evidence that
> I've examined, a whole tone lower than modern is a better choice for a
> convenient general purpose "authentic Baroque" instrument pitch than is a
> semitone lower.
>

Very interesting: A392 is used by some for old French music - Hotteterre
style flutes and such. I know that unaltered organs surviving from
France of that time are generally a whole tone low.