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Eight-foot pitch

Eight-foot pitch
Eight-foot pitch

The system of describing organ pipes or harpsichord strings with a particular number of "feet" is a way of relating the pitch actually sounded by the pipe or the string to the conventional pitch assigned to the key that activates it.

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