Re (2): [Bell Historians] Bootle (Everton) and Fenham

[Mark Humphreys]

Did you know that Beethoven's tuning fork has an official manuscript number
at the BL? You can see it, but not play it..............

Mark 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s.ivin at n... [mailto:s.ivin at n...] 
> Sent: 29 September 2004 18:39
> To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
> Cc: s.ivin at n...
> Subject: Re (2): [Bell Historians] Bootle (Everton) and Fenham
> 
> > A quick search on Google shows that, according to JRK of LL
> > 
> > Old Concert Pitch A=428.5Hz
> 
> Actually, if as Nigel said, 716 is slightly flat of F old 
> concert pitch, that puts A up around 900Hz (or 450Hz if 
> preferred) - multiply by the 12th root of 2 (roughly 
> 1.0594631), 4 times for F#, G, G# & A - this does not agree 
> with 428.5, which I think was Handel's pitch-fork.
> 
> So where does JRK of LL get his authority?
> 
> Steve
> 
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