I have a Broadwood from, I think, the mid-1800's. It doesn't have a plate, it has steel struts. The tuning pins screw into a separate piece of steel that covers the tuning pin holes. I hope to rebuild it someday, but it has been in storage for the last few years while we have been relocating. Diane Diane Hofstetter ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net> Reply-To: l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net, Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: RE: Was Military pitch now Medical Pitch Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:23:02 -0500 Would one, then, pull a Broadwood above 440? Would the plate take it? I think I'll leave this alone.................... les -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Kerry Cooper Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 5:53 PM To: 'Pianotech List' Subject: Was Military pitch now Medical Pitch 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.10/459 - Release Date: 09/29/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.10/459 - Release Date: 09/29/2006
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