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Standard Tuning Pitch of Orchestrions
By Carl Zwanzig

Readers may find some interesting reading about concert pitch at
http://www.wam.hr/Arhiva/US/Cavanagh_440Hz.pdf  some of which appears
to have been copied to the Wikipedia article on the subject, and
especially at http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory27.htm  I had not
known, for instance, that the organ in St Paul's in London was/is
A=444.6, and some were much higher pitch.

I'm of the camp that says tune the piano and pipes to the xylophone's
pitch, not the other way around.

z!
Carl Zwanzig


(Message sent Sat 26 Feb 2011, 21:20:44 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Orchestrions, Pitch, Standard, Tuning

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