As for the Reids' hole spacings, Dr. Wells is probably better placed than anyone to answer, having looked at most of the survivors. He might also know which ones look to have the original hole spacings and which show signs of subsequent work?
John -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Julia Say Sent: 09 February 2011 16:42 To: Dartmouth NPS Subject: [NSP] Re: Tuning/pitch On 9 Feb 2011, Anthony Robb wrote: > 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. We know that Billy was in the habit of making his reeds as sharp as possible -and not just so that he could get over the "John Doonan problem" but all the time - he liked them that way, apparently. Annie Snaith played in F# to accompany him, she said. He learnt to make reeds from George Storey who learnt from Richard Mowat who learnt from...? (Obviously with influence from other players but that's the basic "chain") 10-12 of us, on an assortment of modern makers' pipes (5, I think, but at least 4) happily played along with Andrew on Monday without much perceptible difficulty. I didn't have a tuner out but my ears would tell me we were certainly no sharper than F+20, and probably a bit shy of that. > Add to that the modern trend to > play as near to F (A=440) as possible, eh? Not on my watch! Based on the meetings I go to I would have said F=20 to F+ 30 was about the norm, varying a bit depending on the season, the venue temperature, the degree of exciting-ness, the amount of alcohol consumed etc etc Concert F and below I reserve for the top of the Wannies and suchlike Arctic locations. It was E one year with the windchill. I've had my wrist slapped on reaching F+40/50, but that's where I want to play if I can. > 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. Are the Reid ones not in C&B (don't have it to hand)? We also have Clough figures, there are Hedworth ones and I'm sure I've seen comparison charts of this kind in at least two locations in the past few years. Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
