Klarinet Archive - Posting 000297.txt from 2000/08

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] My memory /Tony Pay`s Weber
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:58:50 -0400

Actually, Tony, I thought that your question:

> > > > Was the pitch of the >19th century lower than today`s pitch?
> > What
> > > > was it? Was it 430? When did 430
> > > > end, and what took it`s place? Were there any different "trends"
> before
> > > 430?
> > > > Is 430 a kind of guess as to what pitch Baerman was playing at?

was answered relatively well by that page - the standard pitches were _all_
over the place - literally and geographically.

If I may be allowed to speculate a bit, I might partially blame it on the
organs installed in many towns. The organs were expensive, so whatever pitch
they were tuned to originally might affect the town's pitch standard. Organs
last a _long_ time if kept in reasonable repair, and the cost of retuning
all the pipes every time someone said there should be a new standard would
be prohibitive - especially if the new tuning was lower than the organ's
tuning!

Again - just speculation, tempered a bit with things I've read (pun
intended). It doesn't explain all the local variances or why people tuned so
wildly different.

Mark C.

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