Klarinet Archive - Posting 000549.txt from 1999/03

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pitch over the years
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:51:56 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: Dee D. Hays <deehays@-----.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Pitch over the years

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paulette W. Gulakowski <pollyg@-----.com>
>To: klarinet@-----.org>
>Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 7:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [kl] Pitch over the years
>
>
>>How did they know for the early years?
>>Paulette
>
>
>In some cases, yes there are tuning forks that have been preserved. In
>churches, many times the old organs have been preserved and of course these
>days we can go back and measure them. There are pianos, harpsichords, and
a
>variety of wind instruments in museums throughout the world and many of
>these have a documented history. With the wind instruments, the pitch can
>be measured.
>
>
>Dee Hays
>Canton, SD
>
I've wondered about this, too. Can the dimensions of wooden instruments be
relied on to have remained stable over a hundred or two hundred years? And
I've played in some churches with pipe organs that were built during the
first part of _this_ century that were hopelessly below A440.

Karl Krelove

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