Re: Period vs Modern instruments?

"Joe Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Alan Watkins wrote:
> > (...)
> > So, once again, I pose my question.  Do I play in tune or out of tune
> > when confronted with an "authentic" score in which the composer either
> > could not be bothered or did not have the means to get the notes
> > played in tune?
> 
> A most informative post, Alan.  It does raise my curiosity, however.  Even
> with the barest 'tonic/dominant' writing in "authentic" scores, aren't those
> notes identified (e.g. at the start of the first system)?   For example,
> wouldn't an F/C or Eb/Bb be indicated at the beginning of a movement or
> section?
> 
> Are you saying, for example, in older scores if the beginning of the piece
> is in F and calls for timpani in (say) F/C, and if a later section is in Eb,
> the timpanist could have continued in F/C?   No expectation of retuning?
> 
> I must have missed something, so am sorry for any confusion.
> 
> Joe

Yes, that is exactly what I am saying.  

Kind regards,
Alan M. Watkins