What a great chart, Conrad. Very comprehensive. Thanks for pitching it to us. Perfectly. Jim > From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu> > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Perfect Pitch / Children > To: pianotech at ptg.org > > On 3/19/09, Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote: > > Certainly. And 100 years ago they all had perfect pitch at A435. > > > > Paul > > Depends where and when... > > >From my old research, mostly from Alexander Ellis, you had a LOT of leeway. > Formatting may not follow real well, but you should get the idea. > These are all pitches of "A". > Current A=440Hz, 12tet scale names and pitches thrown in for comparison. > > Church Pitch Lowest > > 370 Ideal Lowest > 374 Hospice Comtesse 1700 > 377 Schlick low 1511 > " Bedos de Celles 1766 > > Church Pitch Low > > 391 Strasburg Cathedral Silbermann Organ 1714 > 391.995 G > 392 St Petersburg Euler Clavichord 1739 > 395 Cambridge Trinity College Organ/Father Smith 1759 > 396 Versailles Organ 1789 > DeCaus 1615 > > Chamber Pitch Low > > 400 Paris Opera 1700 > 403 Mersenne Spinet 1648 > 407 Paris Spinet by Sauveur 1713 > 408 Matteson, Hamburg 1762 > 409 Paris Court Clavecins (Pascal Taskin) 1783 > 414.4 Breslau Clavichord (Marpurg) 1776 > > European Mean Pitch for two centuries > > 415 Dresden Silbermann Organ 1722 > > 415.305 G# > 420 Freiberg 1714 > " Seville 1785 > 421.6 Mozart's piano (from Stein's fork) 1780 > 422.5 Haendel's tuning fork 1751 > 422.6 Lille, France 1754 > 422.7 Broadwood 1800 > 423 Westminster Abbey Organ 1820 > " Paris Theatre Feydeau 1820 > 423.2 Dresden, Band of the Opera 1815 21 > 423.3 Philharmonic Society 1813 > 424 Praetorius suitable pitch 1619 > 424.1 Eutin, Germany 1740 > 424.2 Paris Italian Opera 1823 > 425 Paris Italian Opera 1829 > 425.8 Paris Grand Opera 1824 > 427.1 Paris Grand Opera 1811 > 427.6 Paris Theatre Feydeau 1823 > 428 Renatus Harris Organ 1696 > 430 Paris (M Lemoine) 1810 > 431.5 Paris Opera 1828 > > > Compromise Pitch > > 433 Sir George Smart's tuning fork 1828 > Broadwood 1820 > 433.9 Vienna Opera 1834 > Concurrent Scheibler forks: 436.5 \ > 439.4 \ > 440.3 > 1834 > 441.1 / > 445.1 / > 434 Paris Grand Opera 1834 > 435 French Diapason (tuning fork) Normal 1859 > " International 1892 > " Dresden, Band of the Opera 1825 30 > " Karlsruhe - Jos. Strauss 1859 > 435.4 Philharmonic Society 1828 > 436 St Petersburg Opera 1796 > 438 Paris Theatre Feydeau 1829 > 439 New Philharmonic 1896 > > === Modern Orchestral Pitch and Ancient Medium Church Pitch ===== > 440 A American Federation of Musicians 1917 > " U.S. Government 1920 > " Associated Music Industries 1925 > " International Standard 1939 > " Paris Conservatoire 1812 > " Dresden Opera 1862 > > 440.2 Scheibler's Stuttgart Standard 1834 > 441 Covent Garden Opera 1878 > " Paris Grand Opera 1836 > " Paris Italian Opera 1836 > " Paris Theatre Feydeau 1836 > 441.8 Berlin Opera 1834 > 442 Hampton Court Palace 1690 > " Bernhardt Schmidt low 1690 > 442.4 ?rard Paris 1899 > 443.3 Paris Woelfel pianofortes 1836 > 444 Paris Cavaill? Coll organ 1859 > 444.6 London St Paul's Cathedral Organ 1877 > 445 Madrid 1858 > 445.9 Broadwood's medium pitch 1849 54 > 446 Paris - Pleyel pianos 1854 > 447 Vienna Opera 1878 > " Paris Opera 1858 > 448 Hamburg Opera 1839 > 449 Leipzig Gewandhaus 1859 > " Paris Conservatoire 1853 > 450 Covent Garden Orchestra 1879 > 451 British & Belgian Instrument Std 1879 > 452 London International Exhibition 1885 > 452.5 Philharmonic Society 1846 54 > 455 London Philharmonic (highest) 1874 > 455.3 ?rard,Broadwood,Steinway,Brinsmead 1880 > 456.1 Vienna, old sharp pitch (Streicher piano) 1834 > 457.2 American Steinway 1890 > > > Church Pitch High > > 458 Great Franciscan Organ, Vienna 1640 > 461.6 Highest U.S. Concert Pitch 1800's > 466.164 A# > 474 Tomkins 1668 > " B. Schmidt, high 1683 > 481 St Catherine's, Hamburg 1543 > 489 St James, Hamburg Schnitger Organs 1688 > > Church Pitch Highest > > 493.883 B > 494 St James, Hamburg 1879 > 496 Rendsburg 1668 > 504 Arnold Schlick high 1511 > 506 Halberstadt Cathedral 1361 > 522.5 Handel's tuning fork 1751 > 523.251 C > > 554.365 C# > > Chamber Pitch Highest > > > 563 Mersenne, ton de chambre 1636 > 567 Pretorius 1619 > 587.33 D > > -- > Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT > Luther College > Decorah, IA > > ************** Great Deals on Dell 15" Laptops - Starting at $479 (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220029050x1201385914/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doub leclick.net%2Fclk%3B212974460%3B34272906%3Bh) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090319/63e9407d/attachment-0001.html>
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