t played at a transposed pitch? What sort of transposition would someone build
into an organ, and why?
The organ was tuned to appr. 465 Hz, which works out a whole tone above
the chamber pitch (which was a little lower than 415 Hz). The same
situation happened in Weimar, but here the strings were tuned up to
organ pitch, while the wind were given transposed parts.
I have always wondered about the case of the F trumpet in the second
Brandenburg -- could this have been written for a situation in which the
strings and ww. played at a Kammerton and the trumpeter used a high
pitched but nominally Eb or even D trumpet?
Daniel Wolf
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