•Some years back, Samick made a console that had 'jumpy' tuning pins. Their suggestion was to "work" the pins aggressively by lowering the pitch significantly, and then raising it back up. (Down, up, down, up, etc.) Has the pin block ever been treated with anything? Musically, John A. Tuttle ...

•Jim Hendershot is probably right when he says he will get as many numbers as there are answers! Things were not standardised even in Europe at that time, never mind in America. In Britain from 1846 to 1854 the Philharmonic Society pitch of A=452.5 Hz was quite often used, except by the famous Briti...

•Responding to MMD 020110, concerning holes drilled in flute pipes: The most likely reason is that the pipes are "harmonic" flutes, meaning that the pipe is designed to sound an octave above the otherwise expected pitch (for that length). This was very common in early 20th century organs. The hole w...

•Phil Housh asked about holes in flute pipes. I suspect they are just about in the center of the speaking length of the pipe. This would tell you that they are harmonic flutes. The pipe puts out a pitch an octave above what it should put out considering its full length. In other words, if you have a...

•With respect to the Dienst-Hupfeld player of Mr Iverson, it would help if he could provide details of the roll width and tracker-bar hole pitch. I have experience of the early Hupfeld cardboard disc and roll players, of which this clearly isn't one, and the 73-note paper roll models. The DEA of Mig...

•Mike Knudsen wrote: > My educated guess is that it is not practical for a WAV player to have > tempo control, since changing the tempo would also change the pitch, > as with a tape or record. WAV files are sound recordings, unlike MIDI > files which are essentially digitized piano rolls. There is n...

•In the event a more direct response isn't forthcoming, here's a possibility: If I could see some discs (either actual or very good scans, preferably of well-known tunes) I could probably deduce the correct relative scale. If you knew the pitch any one tine, then you'd have the complete tuning scale...

•Does anyone have a set of glockenspiel bars tuned to A-435, preferably the Deagan brand, for sale? I have a Wurlitzer 146 band organ that currently has Deagan glockenspiel bars, but at A-440 tuning pitch. This has created the need for the pipework in the organ to be tuned to the A-440 pitch rather ...

•Bill Masterman wrote that Wurlitzer 146 reeds speak properly when tuned to A=435 and "throw more fits" when tuned to A=440. My experience in tuning quite a few Wurlitzer 146 band organs is that some organs' reed speaking properties are quite sensitive to tuning pitch and also temperature variations...

•Greetings all, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who responded to my request for information about the pitch of the first plain wire string on a Seeburg L. So -- thanks to Art Reblitz, Craig Brougher, Bruce Clark, Jack Conway, George Bogatko, Don Teach, Robbie, and the others who k...

•Actually, the number of times a piano with new strings needs to be tuned depends greatly upon the procedures used to bring it up to pitch to begin with. I'll try to explain. Most amateur tuners (and some pros, for that matter) go about raising the pitch completely wrong. Be it an old string or new...

•> On an older piano the strings are pretty much stretched so the > only reason for the piano going flat is plate compression and > case deformation. I would like to clarify this statement. I was referring to the piano going flat during a pitch raising, not the loss of tension over a period of time...

•While new plating of chimes, bells and glockenspiels may look nice, the process of plating can change the pitch, and require re-tuning them. Bruce Clark

•If the 6T3 is much like my Conn ST2 model, you first calibrate it to itself, then check against another known pitch standard. There should be a switch on the front labeled "Calibrate," with a spring return to "Operate" position. Hold that switch in Calibrate while the machine is running. It doesn't...

•I found that my old ST6 is not as accurate as it once was. It was not too bad if you let if warm up for a while but off somewhat when cold. I am talking about the accuracy from note to note and not absolute pitch which the internal calibration does. This is the factory calibration done by adding ca...

•I have a Clarabella table organette which plays from a changeable wooden barrel. It has ten steel pressure-operated reeds and eight bells. It is currently under restoration but there is trouble with the bells. While the highest pitched six bells are turned brass, nickel plated, the bottom two and t...

•The recent thread concerning the use of Cakewalk for music arranging leads me to ask a fundamental question which has intrigued me for some time. Most small organs have scales ranging from Bass through Accompaniment to Melody, in ascending pitch. However, most larger organs such as the 89-key Gavio...

•I advise Michael Pawelek not to simply obtain a reed that plays G-sharp for his Melodia. Organette manufacturers didn't really care about the pitch of their instruments, and it didn't really matter either since an organette will always play solo. The pitch of Michael's Melodia could well not match ...

•I don't remember the details about Wurlitzer hole spacing. It was an engineering mistake. It was supposed to be "X" number of holes to the inch. They used the pitch of a gear or root of a gear that caused the mistake (I don't remember which one). It was based on rack and pinion gear calculation. Ma...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I have a 13-rank unit pipe organ in my home and a roll player for the Wurlitzer Style 165 music rolls. I need to know what pitch (8', 4', 2' etc.) the various pipe [ranks] are for the corresponding tracker bar holes. My pipe organ if fully softwa...