Re: OT: high-precision tuner app

[Jacques Menu Muzhic]

Someone mentioned local organ tuning as explaining historical differences.

The one at Abbatiale de Payerne (Switzerland) is 422 Hz:

        http://www.abbatiale-payerne.ch/musique/orgues/orgue-paroissiale/

see near the bottom of the page.

I was told about it by my oboe teacher, who often plays there. But this is 
neither 415 nor 440, so she has to adapt…

JM

> Le 25 mai 2016 à 18:38, Wols Lists <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> On 25/05/16 07:05, Johan Vromans wrote:
>> Since we're OT anyhow...
>> 
>> On Tue, 24 May 2016 13:58:48 +0100
>> Anthonys Lists <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Not a modern phenomenon. A lot of Baroque parts are almost unsingable in 
>>> the original pitch because they were written for A=400 or somesuch.
>> 
>> Why are they almost unsingable? They were sung at the time they were
>> written. Did the human voice get higher since?
>> 
>> Just curious.
>> 
> Maybe I didn't word it very well. Take a Baroque part, written for eg
> A=400, and try and sing it at the modern A=440 without transposing it.
> 
> Painful ... in other words the pitch has risen but, obviously, our
> voices haven't risen with it.
> 
> Dunno why I was doing it, but I discovered all this from Wikipedia some
> time ago. Iirc A=440 is the original ISO standard number 1 :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol
> 
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