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Re: Tuning Note

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Subject: Re: Tuning Note
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:42:55 +0100
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Nigel
Many church organs aren't in A440 anyway - most are too old for that! I can think of at least a dozen organs near here in regular use that are over 80 years old, and several are older than that.
I think it's really only the modern organs (post ISO-16) that would be in that pitch.
Dave
njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Lots of interesting stuff - thanks for the feedback.  As well as
> percussion instruments, I wonder how it will affect the tuning of church
> organs.   I can imagine that tuning a band with an organ would have
> added difficulties, on top of the usual temperature fluctuations that
> affect church organs.
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