Eight-foot pitch

Big organ pipes of the Nikolaikirche in Berlin

An organ pipe, or a harpsichord string, designated as eight-foot pitch (8′) is sounded at standard, ordinary pitch.[1] 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).

  1. ^ Hubbard, Frank (1965). Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 354. ISBN 0-674-88845-6.