> On Dec 5, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Ron Andrico <praelu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > The "thinking error" in my estimation lies in assuming that players ever > discussed their reference pitch at all. Instruments were tuned to where they > felt and sounded right or, in the case of accompanying instruments, where the > voices sounded best. Today, we have to discuss to death the quality of "A", > for the benefit of keyboardists and fixed0pitch instrumentalists, which is > utter nonsense and ahistorical.
Because there were no keyboards or fixed-pitch instruments until 1959? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html