Was Military pitch now Medical Pitch

[Diane Hofstetter]

I have a Broadwood from, I think, the mid-1800's.  It doesn't have a plate, 
it has steel struts.  The tuning pins screw into a separate piece of steel 
that covers the tuning pin holes.  I hope to rebuild it someday, but it has 
been in storage for the last few years while we have been relocating.
Diane



Diane Hofstetter




----Original Message Follows----
From: "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net, Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Subject: RE: Was Military pitch now  Medical Pitch
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:23:02 -0500

Would one, then, pull a Broadwood above 440?  Would the plate take it?  I
think I'll leave this alone....................
les

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Kerry Cooper
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 5:53 PM
To: 'Pianotech List'
Subject: Was Military pitch now Medical Pitch


John Wrote

<http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory27.htm>


 >Different piano makers had their own pitches: from 1849-1854 Broadwoods
used A445.9Hz, escalating to A454.7Hz in 1874. >Collard's
 >1877 pitch was A449.9Hz, Steinway (in England) in 1879 used A454.7Hz,
 >Erard
used A455.3Hz and in 1877 Chappell tuned at >to 455.9Hz."
 >
 >JD

JD, a very interesting site. Have you ever heard of 'MEDICAL PITCH'? A music
teacher on the Sunshine Coast here in Oz, has been telling her pupils to
have their piano tuned to 'Medical Pitch.

Cheers from downunder,

Kerry Cooper


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