Klarinet Archive - Posting 000550.txt from 1999/03

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pitch over the years
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:54:59 -0500

From: Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.com>
>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.

The 1st part of this century A _was_ officially pitched below 440
(Normal Continental@-----.

The woodwinds may have changed a few Hz - not enough to discount trends.

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"The phenomenon is too variable for proper study" often
translates from "I don't know how to get musicians to do
anything twice the same" - A. H. Benade

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