Hi, my devalued South African 2 cents on the subject is that between 1885 to 1896 pitch A was from 439 to 452, which is more and less than it is now. http://www.uk-piano.org/history/pitch.html Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tvak@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: 11 January, 2002 06:33 AM Subject: Re: Mortal Fear of Pitch Raising? In a message dated 1/9/02 9:06:49 PM, joegarrett@earthlink.net writes: << to raise a piano to it's designed pitch. >> It is my impression that A440 was a standard that was not initiated until the 1930's. In this discussion of raising pitch, I have yet to see someone bring up the possibility that indeed, that piano manufactured in 1901 was never intended to be tuned to A440. Tom Sivak
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