Deryk Barker wrote:
>Although I recall Jeanne Lamon of Tafelmusik saying in an interview that
>they intended to record Vivaldi at some very high pitch (450?). Don't
>recall how they knew...
Some recorders and flutes from the time were pitched higher. I heard
Marion Verbruggen demonstrate some of these when some of us visited a home
and found her there, her actual recorders stolen and replaced for concerts
by a quick replacement set by a recorder maker in Boston.
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