>In most cases I believe "early" tunings were somewhere around A=415. >I think you'll find differently in Baroque-period England, however. >Henry Purcell heard something more along the lines of AF6. Certainly >the "characters" of the different keys had at least some effect on the >music composed. 17th C. English music, played on recorders of that time, were sometimes a note higher than A=440 while most music at that time was played at A=415 (it varied depending on organs in the region etc.) In France, the music was often played at A=392 as well. There are many examples of this on record (then and on 'recordings' now). Andrys in Berkeley http://andrys.com/books.html