>>> The last section of the paper was the relevant information - and some
>>> history that none of my music history classes really touched upon other
>>> than to say "tuning was traditionally flat compared to modern tuning".
>> ...although...they could have just meant that the reference pitch was
>> traditionally lower. ;-)
> 
> Well, yeah, that was probably how it was phrased.  It's been a generation 
> since I took those classes - memory ain't what it used to be. :-)

Yes - considering that the equal tempered scale tunes almost every 
interval *sharp* of the Pythagorean scale, not flat. ;-)

But yeah, apparently the reference pitch has undergone a kind of "pitch 
inflation" over the centuries. Strings tuned to higher pitches sound 
brighter and more brilliant, leading to a slow gradual upwards trend...

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