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| '''Eight-foot pitch''' is a term common to the [[Pipe organ|organ]] and the [[harpsichord]]. An organ pipe, or a harpsichord string, designated as eight-foot pitch is sounded at standard, ordinary pitch.<ref name="Hubbard">{{cite book|last=Hubbard|first=Frank|title=Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making|year=1965|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=0-674-88845-6|page=354|authorlink=Frank Hubbard}}</ref> For example, the A above middle C in eight-foot pitch would be sounded at 440 Hz (or at some similar value, depending on how [[concert pitch]] was set at the time and place the organ or harpsichord was made). | | The author is known as Irwin Wunder but it's not the most masucline name out there. Body developing is what my family members and I appreciate. Puerto Rico is exactly where he's usually been living but she requirements to move because of her family members. Hiring is his profession.<br><br>Here is my page; [http://www.karachicattleexpo.com/blog/56 std testing at home] |
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| ==Similar terms==
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| Eight-foot pitch may be contrasted with '''four-foot pitch''' (one octave above the standard), '''two-foot pitch''' (two octaves above the standard), and '''sixteen-foot pitch''' (one octave below the standard).<ref>Hubbard (1965: 355, 361)</ref> The latter three pitches were often sounded (by extra pipes or strings) along with an eight-foot pitch pipe or string, as a way of enriching the tonal quality.
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| The reason these lengths can all be obtained by successive doubling is that, all else being equal, a pipe or string that is double the length of another will vibrate at a pitch one octave lower.
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| ==Why eight feet?==
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| The particular length "eight feet" is based on the approximate length of an organ pipe sounding the pitch two octaves below middle C, the bottom note on an organ keyboard.<ref name="Hubbard"/> This may be calculated as follows.
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| Physics tells us that if a pipe is open at both ends, as is true of most organ pipes, its [[fundamental frequency]] ''f'' can be calculated (approximately) as follows:
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| *<math>f=\frac{v}{2l}</math>
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| where
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| *''f'' = fundamental frequency
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| *''v'' = the speed of sound
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| *''l'' = the length of the pipe
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| If ''v'' is assumed to be 1130 feet per second (the speed of sound at sea level, with temperature 70 degrees Fahrenheit), and the pipe length ''l'' is assumed to be eight feet, then the formula yields the value of 70.6 [[hertz]] (Hz; cycles per second). This is not far from the pitch of the C two octaves below 440 Hz, which (when concert pitch is set at A = 440 Hz) is 65.4 Hz. The discrepancy may be related to various factors, including effects of pipe diameter, the historical differing definitions of the length of the foot, and variations in tuning prior to the setting of A = 440 Hz as standard pitch in the 20th Century.
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Pipe organ]]
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| *[[Organ stop]]
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| *[[Harpsichord]]
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| *[[Acoustic resonance]]
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| ==References==
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| <references/>
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Eight Foot Pitch}}
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| [[Category:Harpsichord]]
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| [[Category:Pipe organ]]
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