At the Whitewater Early Music Festival the first weekend in June, I bought some second hand instruments, a bass cornamuse and an alto recorder at A=415.\u00a0 I took my good tuner (Korg OT-120 ) with me to check the instruments before buying.<\/p>\n
The cornamuse was first up.\u00a0 I turned the tuner on, noted it was set on a mean tone temperament at A=440, and thought I’d just try it.\u00a0 Wow, I was impressed — almost every note, right on pitch.\u00a0 I went up and down the scale, played arpeggios, bits of tunes and stopped occasionally to check the tuning.\u00a0 Every time, very close to perfectly on pitch in mean tone!\u00a0 Cool!<\/p>\n
Then the alto recorder.\u00a0 I had my expectations, but for grins and giggles, left the tuner in mean tone temperament, tuned it down to A=415, and started playing and checking.\u00a0 Not nearly as good, most notes off a bit, some off a lot.\u00a0 Then I shifted the tuner to equal temperament, and tried again.\u00a0 Bingo, most notes came into tune according to the meter easily, and as I ran bits of tunes stopping occasionally to check notes, they were pretty much right in place.<\/p>\n
None of this is particularly surprising, but it was quite interesting to see it in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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