standard pitch in 1850?

Stephen Birkett sbirkett@real.uwaterloo.ca
Sat, 28 Dec 2002 11:44:16 -0500


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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