Historic Pitch Emergency - Help!

[Richard Brekne]

This must be a misprint eh ??? A 459 ??? on an 1872 ????

Erwinpiano wrote:

> Hey you all
> Recently I put a board in a 1872 Swy. style 1. FOUND THAT A PITCH LEVEL OF
> a- 459 WAS REQUIRED TO  even begin to get adequate tonal response. I suggest
> taking string length measurements at note 88 or 85 and elsewhere.crunch
> these quickly  however and compare them to something modern. If tensions are
> way low then the piano was scaled for higher pitch level. See anniversary
> edition of P.T.J.  two months back .Excellent info on historical pitch .
> Dale Erwin R.P.T.

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway