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From: weigel@DPW.COM (William Weigel)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Transposing early music (was: Perfect Pitch)
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Date: 23 Mar 91 16:16:17 GMT
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     A previous comment indicated that classical music recordings are
sometimes adjusted by the recording engineers to be slightly high in pitch.
I don't know whether this practice is common, but I do know that many
turntables used to be manufactured to play slightly faster than 33-1/3 rpm
for the same reason.  As a college freshman
I became so irritated about this phenomenon that I finally opened up my KLH
"suitcase stereo," removed the appropriate piece and ground it down in the
machine shop so that the damn thing would play the Haydn trumpet concerto
in Eb instead of E!