FWD: Sharp organ

[jolly roger]

Hi Don,
            A440 is set on the Great 8' Pincipal (or Diapason on an English
Organ).  The 10cent sharp stops are refered to as Celeste stops.
Easy way to remember.  Great the big guy, Principal the boss guy.   Works
for this simple guy.
Regards roger



At 09:31 PM 5/12/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Ron,
>
>You forgot the most important factor in pipe organ pitch. Barometric
>pressure determines the number of molecules of air that go thru the pipe.
>More molecules, higher pitch; fewer, lower.
>
>I measured a pipe organ where I was going to perform on a Friday evening.
>It was 20 cents flat. On Sunday it was 20 cents sharp.
>
>At 12:47 PM 05/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>>>I just had an experience with a pipe
>>>organ which was recently tuned.  The pitch was just
>>>above A-443.
>>Hi Greg,
>>The situation here is that pipe organs are tremendously unstable
>>instruments, with metal and wooden pipes responding at different rates, and
>>in different directions to temperature and humidity swings.
>
>Regards,
>Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
>
>Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts
>
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