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In the Thread: Ultimate Turntable

Post Subject: Historical pitchPosted by rowuk on: 5/9/2014

Yes, it would be wonderful to be able to separate pitch and speed with no loss or gain of quality........ Still, Vienna playing Bruckner at A=465 is exhilarating to me. Modern American orchestras at A=441 (practically a half step lower) do sound much different and I do think that the pitch issue can confuse listeners into imagining power and breadth is bigger at the lower pitches.
Baroque music around A=415 also presents a much different framework for listening.
I do have recordings where the tuning pitch changes several cents between movements. Normally in a symphony orchestra the oboe does provide a VERY stable tuning pitch. I attribute the difference to the recording chain and would like to be able to deal with it.

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