minstrel: 440 amd a simi-tone down?

[Dustin]

on 3/5/03 11:00 AM, david ball at dkball at hotmail.com wrote:

> But I have read that in period
> the notes should not be based on 440hz, but a simi-tone lower. My question
> is, from a practical standpoint, should I tune my flutes to this?

It is just as period as any other tunning and since it will be safe to say
that most people in and out of the SCA will be tunning to 440.

Morgan