AskHistorians Podcast Episode 195 is live!
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This Episode
Tyler Alderson talks with pipe organist and Juilliard professor Paul Jacobs about the history of the instrument and his upcoming recital series of the music of César Franck.
In his book On the Sensation of Tone Helmholtz charted the results of the measurment of "A" ( nominally 440 Hz) on a number of famous old pipe organs throughout Europe. There was quite a variation. Since many of these fine instruments sadly no longer exist we can only image what they sounded like.
On the Sensations of Tone
by Hermann von Helmholtz, 1863