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Article #1633Re: Fundamental Frequencies of Musical Notes
From: Michel Fingerhut
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 19:14
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 19:14
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dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: >The frequency of A' at 440 is currently indeed standard, but for older music >you would like to have a lower pitch. alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) corrects: >It is a myth that absolute pitch has been getting gradually higher since the >baroque. [...] At least in the baroque pitch references were local at best, ... as is obvious from the various organs still in existence from those periods. I don't have my Helmholtz' right here but from recollection some As were as high as 535 Hz (against 440 today).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!sdd.hp.com!think.com!cass.ma02.bull.com!mips2!bull.bull.fr!lvbull.lv.bull.fr!bull.bull.fr!julienas!ircam!fingerhu From: fingerhu@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: Fundamental Frequencies of Musical Notes Message-ID: <1993Jan5.191446.145@ircam.fr> Date: 5 Jan 93 19:14:46 GMT References: <1i50piINNl3s@golem.wcc.govt.nz> <8515@charon.cwi.nl> <1i86uvINNkrc@calvin.usc.edu> Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France) Lines: 12