Klarinet Archive - Posting 000186.txt from 1994/10

From: Timothy Tikker <tjt@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: Pitch
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 04:13:43 -0400

On Tue, 18 Oct 1994, Roger J. Shilcock wrote:

> In seventeenth-century Germany (and possibly elsewhere, and later), organs
used
> with choirs were likely to be tuned roughly a tone lower than the prevailing
> standard; this was known as "Chorton" as contrasted with "Kammerton." No
doubt,
> someone on this list knows a lot more about this than I do.

Actually, Chorton is the higher pitch.