Klarinet Archive - Posting 000591.txt from 1999/03

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pitch over the years
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:01:45 -0500

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Dee D. Hays wrote:

> 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.

But, such organs would have been tuned and re-tuned hundreds of times. I
think one could at best get an approximation of the pitch at which the
organ was played at a given time in the past.

> 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.

Once again, I would feel much better about this statement if it included
the word, "approximate." It's not always easy even today to tell if an
instrument has been built to play at, for example, A@-----.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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