Was Military pitch now Medical Pitch

[Kerry Cooper]

John Wrote

<http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory27.htm>


>Different piano makers had their own pitches: from 1849-1854 Broadwoods
used A445.9Hz, escalating to A454.7Hz in 1874. >Collard's
>1877 pitch was A449.9Hz, Steinway (in England) in 1879 used A454.7Hz, Erard
used A455.3Hz and in 1877 Chappell tuned at >to 455.9Hz."
>
>JD

JD, a very interesting site. Have you ever heard of 'MEDICAL PITCH'? A music
teacher on the Sunshine Coast here in Oz, has been telling her pupils to
have their piano tuned to 'Medical Pitch.

Cheers from downunder,

Kerry Cooper