Hi Clyde, I'm certainly no expert in the area of tuning pipe organs, but I've been around a few of them at times to know a little of how it's done. You had a thread going a little while back on 'pitch floating', in reference to pianos. Well, that happens quite a bit on pipe organs, probably even more than on pianos. The thing of it is, we can tune 235 or so strings in pretty short order. It might take a lot longer to tune many thousands of pipes. So, something that organ tuners will sometimes do is find that 'spot' (pitch) where they can tune the least amount of pipes the smallest distance and have a decent sounding organ. (I didn't say that was the right way to do it, only that it's a rather common practice.) Another problem is that there are sets of pipes which are made to speak at some pitch other than A-440, maybe A-442 or A-445... which might limit where they can tune the organ. Aaarrrrggghhh!!!!!! It does get complicated sometimes. FWIW... Brian Trout Quarryville, PA btrout@desupernet.net
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