As far as I know, this would be French Baroque pitch, but my understanding was that it was A 392. Period groups use it do give 18th century French music its particular historical sound, and at roughly an entire step low, it is distinct--I'll give it that. Greg Granoff > Robert, > > For a concert coming up, I was told that they wanted to use that pitch > level for > some particular music. I forget right now what it was. I wasn't familiar > with > it. > > Avery > > At 06:55 PM 9/28/2004 -0400, you wrote: >>Hi Avery, >>Why would you NEED to tune it to A=395? >>Robert Murphy >>Oberlin Conservatory >>Avery Todd writes: >>>List, >>>Can anyone give me an idea on the best way to go about >>>tuning a harpsichord to this pitch level? One of the >>>ones we have will shift to that position but my SAT will >>>only go to -198.7 cents for an offset. >>>Is the offset for that level about double that for A-415 >>>(101.3 cents) or is it not. I've never had to do it >>>before, so do not know. Suggestions? Thanks. >>>Avery >>>University of Houston >>>_______________________________________________ >>>caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > Greg Granoff RPT
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