Thomas,
For once I was too brief - I thought I'd mentioned the surviving fixed pitch
instruments, but I see I didn't (oops, that was what I meant by comparative
working). As to the carry I'd say it was based less on hearing habits
than actual auditory phenomena. We know that low frequencies
Dear Jon,
one can approximate the tuning of a certain time and certain region for
instance by using the surviving instruments with fixed pitch as example
(organs, flutes etc.).
I think the idea that the carry (as you put it) of sound would decrease
with a lower pitch is a legend based on
Thomas,
You're correct about hearing habits. I might
only add that in some places, we know that pitch was
considerably _higher_ than A440. The idea of pitch in
olden days was very relative across the board from
region to region, so there is bond to be quite a bit
of variation to be
should tend to
leave more significant traces than organic material like gut.
Best wishes
Thomas
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Thomas,
I think the German Baroque
