Klarinet Archive - Posting 000625.txt from 1999/03

From: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pitch over the years
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:02:18 -0500

What procedure did they use 150 years ago to determine the cycles per
second (or whatever the correct term is)? I am very curious about this.
Thanks,
Paulette

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:56:27 -0600 Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
writes:
>At 05:29 PM 3/10/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>Same for woodwinds. There is one pitch that any specific instrument
>plays
>>best at (even flutes with there corps de rechange have only one best
>pitch).
>>Now there is variation caused by a players technique, but it is
>slight. In
>>any case, when dealing with historical pitch, no one really cares
>about
>>whether A was 440 or 442. However, it is of importance that for
>example
>>Parisian pitch rose from roughly A 392 around 1680 to 435+++ by the
>mid 19th
>>century.
>
>The tuning fork, according to my wife, originated in Norway from about
>100+
>years ago - perhaps 150. It is labeled A 435
>
>RG
>
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>Illinois Wesleyan University
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