On 22:28 Uhr John Howell wrote:
One of the most pitch-dependent instruments is the 18th century oboe. Oboes at 415 sound baroque. Oboes at 440 don't. But all that really means is that we have LEARNED to think of the tone quality of oboes at 415 as being "baroque," even though we know perfectly well that there was no standard pitch. I wonder whether Bach's tiefe Kammerton wasn't closer to 415 than to 440.
I think in Köthen they were well below 415, probably closer to French pitch (around 392Hz).
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