Klarinet Archive - Posting 000250.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Short barrels
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 05:37:18 -0400

At 09:43 PM 9/7/98 -0500, Roger Garrett wrote:
>Ed Lacy wrote:
>> > "Over the years the frequency of the standard A has gone up. [from
>> > Handel's A@-----.5, for example] The reason for this rise is still not
>> > established. It appears that those instruments, such as the strings,
that
>> > can tune to any pitch gain an advantage in "brightness" if they are tuned
>> > sharp with respect to those instruments, such as the woodwinds, that must
>> > be built to a fixed standard of pitch. Whatever the reason, toward the
>> > end of the nineteenth century the standard A had gone as high as 455
>> > cycles per second in England
>
>No need to re-read.......the last sentence says it all. Pitch was A455!!
>Didn't happen overnight my friends........
>
>It's high today, was high in 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990........
>
It also WAS 422.5 in Handel's time. Sounds like a pitch rise to me! Just
because there has been a cyclical rise and fall over time does not mean
that what is going on now is NOT a rising trend.

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