Mortal Fear of Pitch Raising?

[Stephen Airy]

--- Tvak@AOL.COM wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 1/9/02 9:06:49 PM,
> joegarrett@earthlink.net writes:
> 
> << to raise a piano to it's designed
> 
> pitch. >>
> 
> It is my impression that A440 was a standard that
> was not initiated until the 
> 1930's.  In this discussion of raising pitch, I have
> yet to see someone bring 
> up the possibility that indeed, that piano
> manufactured in 1901 was never 
> intended to be tuned to A440.  
> 
> Tom Sivak

My 1913 *ICCA (Thanks Tom Driscoll -- you asked me
what I was going to do with the
you-know-what-letter...) came up to 440 without a
problem -- it wasn't until several months later that
strings started popping...

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