Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 08.09.2007 dhbailey wrote:
Huh? what precisely do you mean that it 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.
IIn Leipzig however, the strings were tuned a tone below the organ,
which was also the pitch of the wind. The organ part was written out a
tone lower.
Thus the organ functioned as a transposing instrument.
Johannes
Thanks for the clarification -- it makes sense now that you explain it.
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David H. Bailey
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