Reid pipes were generally made sharper than the current F+; close to modern F# in many cases, so Francis and Graham tell me.
John -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Dru Brooke-Taylor Sent: 07 February 2011 11:39 To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [NSP] Re: Esoteric tuning relationships On 7 Feb 2011, at 11:21, Gibbons, John wrote: > A compromise might be a pair of e's, one a true 6th above G, for > playing in G; > another - a perfect fourth above the B, and keyed, for playing in E > minor. > The low E might be harder to arrange practically, but may not be as > critical acoustically?? > > As the most prolific and also one of the best pipemakers both produce > in F+, > and most others too, I don't see much benefit in arguing who's to > blame for the emergence of this de facto standard. > CB And I've been telling people it is because all notes have got gradually sharper over the last 150 years, and that the Reid 'ur-pipes' were made when G was somewhere between where F and G are now. Have I been wrong all this time? Dru To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
