standard pitch in 1850?

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Sat, 28 Dec 2002 13:12:13 EST


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In a message dated 12/28/2002 8:48:56 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
sbirkett@real.uwaterloo.ca writes:

> Subj: Re: standard pitch in 1850? 
>  Date: 12/28/2002 8:48:56 AM Pacific Standard Time
>  From: <A HREF="mailto:sbirkett@real.uwaterloo.ca">sbirkett@real.uwaterloo.ca</A>
>  Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>
>  To: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>
>  Sent from the Internet 
> 
> 
>                                Stephen

                  Thanks for the web address. It was informative and 
re-enforces my point.
         Also Paul is a native of  Modesto and an acquantaince of mine. He's 
traveled far. Regards-    Dale Erwin

> Terry wrote:
> >Does anyone know what standard international picth was in 1850? My Brother 
> 
> >recently bought a Broadwood "straight-strung" 6' cottage grand, and i want 
> 
> >to tune it to the pitch which would have been correct for its time.
> 
> Take a look at 
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/paulpoletti/pitch.PDF
> 
> Stephen
> 
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