There is evidence of the pitches of a "factory tuned" old English 
rank of pipes in C. A. Padgham's book on tuning.  Otherwise I havent seen any.

It is, nonetheless, amazing to me to contemplate that a set of pipes 
can remain in tune so long to an accuracy of less than a cent...

David

At 16:58 31-03-16, Stephen E Kabat wrote:
 >
 >Charles's post fascinates me in regards to giving what appears to be
 >solid evidence of a particular temperament in a particular time and
 >place.  This  has prompted me to wonder: With so much of our interest
 >being concerned with pitch and temperaments of various keyboards
 >throughout our favored era and the geographical locales therein, has
 >anyone compiled a kind of comparative  timeline which can give a quick
 >listing of what is known of this data? A spreadsheet as it were of
 >year(s), city/country, instrument, pitch, temperament?
 >
 >I haven't consulted Bruce Haynes's Story of A recently, so this
 >information may  be there or perhaps elsewhere, but we've learned so
 >much  since that book was published.
 >
 >I realize the monumentality of such an undertaking,  and perhaps it
 >has been  done somewhere unbeknownst to me.

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