Muriel Brunskill, the contralto, was the other artist who wanted alteration. She asked for her last outburst as Ortrud in "Lohengrin" in 1949 to be put down a minor third. "But that's ridiculous!" I complained to Rankl. "It will be off the bottom of some of the instruments." "Put it down a semi-tone, she won't notice," he said. So I did and she didn't - or at least she never complained.