Hi Anthony,
Perhaps we should also take reed variations into consideration.
Cheers,
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Robb" <anth...@robbpipes.com>
To: "Dartmouth NPS" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:02 AM
Subject: [NSP] Tuning/pitch
Francis wood wrote today:
There's no reason to suppose that Robert and James Reid were careless
about the consistency of pitch of their products. No doubt, they would
be extremely surprised to know of the latitude in pitch (and indeed
tuning) of many of today's pipes.
Hello Francis, John and others with the stamina to keep reading this,
The puzzling thing is that we have had two reports in recent postings
of Reid sets happy to play up near F# (for example Billy Pigg) and yet
Andrew Davison's Reid set are said to be happy at F+20.
This degree of variation would make it impossible for these sets to
span the gulf by pressure adjustment. Add to that the modern trend to
play as near to F (A=440) as possible, with the resulting move away
from the Reid pattern, and here we find ourselves.
What would be interesting, Francis, is to see the figures for Reid's
scale length (say top g down to bottom D) and compare that
with Ross/Nelson figures.
Cheers
Anthony
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