source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 05:37:41 +0200 Subject: Re: Historical Tuning From: "Richard Moody " Daniel wolf worte... > Starting > with Dutch early music specialists in the sixties, most professional > harpsichordists and fortepianists have done their own tuning, and usually> > with a single tuning fork (typically using the A440A as Bb to get somethi> ng > something close to A415). Learning to set meantone, a Kirnberger or a > Werkmeister by ear isn't terribly hard - while tuning 12tet is really > specialist work unless you're using a digital tuner or a strobe. > > At both of my Universities in the States, and here at the Frankfurt > Musikhochschule, the early keyboard faculty and students are themselves > responsible for tuning the instruments. Most piano tuning supply houses should sell a G# fork at 415.3 cps. I would be interested in how the students are instructed (learn) to tune the harpsichords and fortepianos. Richard Moody Piano Tuner Technician Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 07:17 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04748; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 07:18:08 +0200 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 07:18:08 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04707 Received: (qmail 19718 invoked from network); 4 Jul 1997 05:17:59 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jul 1997 05:17:59 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970703221147.0069a774@adnc.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu