It always fascinates me how the tuning of things changes (I have a
concertina in "high pitch").
For those (like me) not well versed in the mechanics and theory of things,
this makes good reading:
http://www.piano-tuners.org/history/pitch.html
(and also which locations not to attempt to play the pipes with the
instruments noted).
What I can never understand is WHY the pitch changes.
Imagine if they did that with yards etc (change to metric notwithstanding)
or liquid measure (I asked for a pint, what's this? - Oh the pint has been
getting smaller over the years..............).
A standard should be just that - a standard. If it changes, it ain't
standard!
Good interesting thread though.
Colin Hill
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Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 11:45 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Esoteric tuning relationships
And I've been telling people it is because all notes have got
gradually
sharper over the last 150 years, and that the Reid 'ur-pipes'
were made
when G was somewhere between where F and G are now. Have I been wrong
all this time?
This is probably an associated factor. My speculation about the 440 tuning
fork more concerned modern pipes (which are inevitably in the majority)
manufactured after the introduction of 440 as an international standard
(though many windplayers and hence orchestras incline to 442 (or even 443)
nowadays).
C
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