Mortal Fear of Pitch Raising?

[Brian Lawson]

Hi, my devalued South African 2 cents on the subject is that between 1885 to
1896 pitch A was from 439 to 452, which is more and less than it is now.



http://www.uk-piano.org/history/pitch.html

Brian



----- Original Message -----
From: <Tvak@AOL.COM>
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Sent: 11 January, 2002 06:33 AM
Subject: Re: Mortal Fear of Pitch Raising?



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