[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Pitch

Nice article, Ron. I agree, in that there is no definitive pitch. We seem to have settled on 440 vs. 415 as standards of modern vs baroque, but what about 460, or 392? With the lute, a few sources state to tune the treble to just before it breaks, and that is where one starts.

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Pitch

After wrestling with this vexed question of pitch since at least 1976 on lutes, vihuelas, guitars, violas da gamba- with singers, other instrumentalists, and- worst of all, alone by myself- attempting to force gut strings to go to distant extremes both high & low; to remote places where no gut

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Pitch

For what it's worth, some recorder makers are no longer making recorders pitched at 440. They have bumped the pitch up to 442. At the Von Huene Workshop, they told me that 442 is becoming the standard concert pitch in Europe. -Original Message- From: Edward Martin Sent: Saturday,

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Pitch

>> they told me that 442 is becoming the standard concert pitch in Europe. << Ever rising. One of the modern orchestras I play with is at 446 for quite awhile already. But in the early music orchestras I meet anything from 392 (Gilles' Requiem last month) to 466 for

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Pitch

I've been spending a lot of my time lately playing tenor sackbut in Ren loud bands and pitch in that world has a lot of variety. A-440 is the most common, followed by A-415, but a number of the players I know (cornetto, in particular) also have "high pitch" instruments at A-465. I know some early

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Pitch

Tuning the recorder to a'=442 is perhaps a cunning way of getting around the problem that you can pull a recorder out but you can't blow it up, so to speak. In the current climate where keyboards are mostly tuned to a'=440, it might help a few insufficiently warmed-up recorders to be in tune -

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Pitch

> On Dec 12, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Edward Martin wrote: > > I am wondering, has anybody on the list read some of the arguments > about changing the modern pitch standard as a + 432? A major push for 432 came from none other than convicted mail fraud conspirator and

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Pitch

> On Dec 12, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Ron Andrico wrote: > > Nevertheless, most lutenists play solo, Most amateur lutenists. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - Pitch

Yes, the pro's have connections -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html