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Originally Posted by SteveDallas
Are you kidding? not to be pedantic.. or a smartass... (or a pedantic smartass..) but, though I haven't looked, it's hard to believe any handheld instrument can beat an organ with 16 foot pipes for low notes. (Some organs today have 32 ft. pipes. I'm not sure if those were available in the 1700s, though, but 16 definitely were.)
But seriously.. how low can you tune it without the string getting too loose to be useful?
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Pedantic smartass? You rang?
32 ft pipes? What about the 20 Hz
drum? I looked it up and I'm waay out of my league here. The references I found describe the lowest notes on a pipe organ range from 16 to 32 Hz... dang.
Later in my search, I found reference to a 128 foot pipe. That's when I quit looking. Wow.