In London, Haydn had an office/studio in Broadwood's showroom. What influence might he have had on Broadwood's tuning?
Surely there was once a journal entry somewhere....
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Anyway, is it safe to assume that when Mozart and Haydn and Mendelssohn played in London, their pianos were not in ET?
That is an open question. It is possible in Haydn's case that he and/or musicians from Germany with him tuned their own instruments, but that is speculation.
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