Historic Pitch Emergency - Help!

[Farrell]

Yup Richard. From the article "The Industrial Revolution and Piano Wire"
from the July 2000 PTG Journal, Steinway USA had a pitch of 457 Hz in 1879.

And by the way, thanks to all who gave some tidbits regarding my "Pitch
Emergency". I knew this would happen: The 1845 Chickering grand turned out
to be an 1896 Story & Clark 56" upright. What a trip eigh? This was a violin
teacher. Doesn't know a Chickering grand from an old upright. Go figgur

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: Historic Pitch Emergency - Help!


> This must be a misprint eh ??? A 459 ??? on an 1872 ????
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> Erwinpiano wrote:
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> > Hey you all
> > Recently I put a board in a 1872 Swy. style 1. FOUND THAT A PITCH LEVEL
OF
> > a- 459 WAS REQUIRED TO  even begin to get adequate tonal response. I
suggest
> > taking string length measurements at note 88 or 85 and elsewhere.crunch
> > these quickly  however and compare them to something modern. If tensions
are
> > way low then the piano was scaled for higher pitch level. See
anniversary
> > edition of P.T.J.  two months back .Excellent info on historical pitch .
> > Dale Erwin R.P.T.
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> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
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