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Definition of Philharmonic pitch
1. Noun. The pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances; usually assigns 440 Hz to the A above middle C.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Philharmonic Pitch
Literary usage of Philharmonic pitch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"Though higher than the pitch of 512, the philharmonic pitch, or the diapason normal,
... philharmonic pitch ..."
2. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1861)
"On testing the A tuning-forks, said, on irrefragable evidence, to represent the
philharmonic pitch of 1813—12, they arc found to be the result of 433 ..."
3. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"A committee was appointed in England which adopted what is known as the French
diapason normal, or philharmonic pitch, giving A four hundred and thirty-nine ..."
4. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments Recently Exhibited at the by Charles Russell Day, David James Blaikley (1891)
"The importance of the philharmonic pitch in connection with wind instruments ...
Smart's philharmonic pitch of 1828. As this pitch was very largely in use ..."
5. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1860)
"... still nearer than the French to the pitch it again n strongly in favour of
the latter pitch : like the French, the philharmonic pitch was 1 upon without ..."
6. The Science of Musical Sounds by Dayton Clarence Miller (1916)
"this philharmonic pitch is often referred to as Concert Pitch, and it has reached
the high limit of A = 461.6. Not only has the rise in pitch been so great ..."
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