3 DECEMBER 1859, Page 19

A circumstance has just occurred, calculated to disconcert the present

endeavours to obtain an uniform depression of the musical pitch. Tbe plan adopted by the Parisian sevens was founded on inquiries tending to show the gradual rise of the pitch during the past century. But as eminent musician, M. de la Fage, has communicated to the Gazette Musicale the discovery of a tuning-fork which undeniably belonged to the celebrated Gret23r, and which proves that the pitch of the Opera Comique in his time was 878 vibrations per second, higher by eight vibrations than the new pitch proposed to be established by the recent commission, and ordered by an imperial decree.