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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
8 lines. Read by computer on 1 October 2026. Printed page 253. See the scan on archive.org.
1Existing instruments, with perhaps a few exceptions, could be adjusted to this pitch with accuracy and at comparatively small cost. Many that are now in use would be distinctly improved by the alteration.
3If so altered, wind instruments could be used with the most important cathedral and church organs, the difference not being more than could be regulated by the usual means. The present difference is too great to be overcome by means of the tuning slides.
5The suggested standard, being a mean between the highest and the lowest pitches in actual use in this country, would probably cause less confusion and expense in connection with its adoption than any other.
7Those singers who find the present Philharmonic pitch too high, would find a distinct advantage in that now proposed. At the same time, the change would not be so great as to call forth opposition from those who consider the French pitch too low.
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