Klarinet Archive - Posting 000216.txt from 1999/02

From: "Steven J Goldman, MD" <gpsc@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Pitch standards (Was: perfect pitch)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:05:59 -0500

Re-modified actually (ouch, ouch, ohy vay, ouch).The old 17-18 C violins
were pretty much all modified during the 19 C to adjust for the already
increased pitch and to make them louder.

-----Original Message-----
From: LeliaLoban@-----.com]
Subject: [kl] Pitch standards (Was: perfect pitch)

....However, I think it's only a matter of time before singers and
violinists call
a halt to rising pitch, as they did earlier this century. According to my
violinist husband, it's usually solo violinists who put the pitch on the
"Up"
escalator to begin with, but when pitch gets too high, cranking the strings
so
tightly can damage the valuable old fiddles unless they're -- ouch --
modified.....

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