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Standard Tuning Pitch of Orchestrions
By Steve Bentley 

I am to understand that the standard pitch changed in 1922 or '23.
If the manufacturer had many xylophones and glockenspiels in stock at
this time, then the orchestrions could have been shipped sometime
after 1923 at the A-435 pitch.

Steve Bentley - sending from sunny Swakopmund,
Namibia, South West Afrika

(Message sent Mon, 1 Apr 2013 00:40:56 -0700 , from time zone -0700.)

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