Someone mentioned local organ tuning as explaining historical differences.
The one at Abbatiale de Payerne (Switzerland) is 422 Hz:
http://www.abbatiale-payerne.ch/musique/orgues/orgue-paroissiale/
see near the bottom of the page.
I was told about it by my oboe teacher, who often plays there. But this is
neither 415 nor 440, so she has to adapt…
JM
> Le 25 mai 2016 à 18:38, Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> a écrit :
>
> On 25/05/16 07:05, Johan Vromans wrote:
>> Since we're OT anyhow...
>>
>> On Tue, 24 May 2016 13:58:48 +0100
>> Anthonys Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Not a modern phenomenon. A lot of Baroque parts are almost unsingable in
>>> the original pitch because they were written for A=400 or somesuch.
>>
>> Why are they almost unsingable? They were sung at the time they were
>> written. Did the human voice get higher since?
>>
>> Just curious.
>>
> Maybe I didn't word it very well. Take a Baroque part, written for eg
> A=400, and try and sing it at the modern A=440 without transposing it.
>
> Painful ... in other words the pitch has risen but, obviously, our
> voices haven't risen with it.
>
> Dunno why I was doing it, but I discovered all this from Wikipedia some
> time ago. Iirc A=440 is the original ISO standard number 1 :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
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