On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 06:46:37 -0400
"jonetsu@email-addr-hidden" <jonetsu@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:19:22 +0200
> fred <f.rech@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> > Maybe you have something to say about the fashion to tune A to 442 Hz?
>
> Er, that would be 432Hz. The 'universal' frequency. See on youtube,
> there are tons of adaptations, from Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven to native
> american indians, to Phil Collins, David Bowie and Rammstein. Including
> of course the mandatory 'om' chants and reggae music
>
> Maybe one of these days I'll try tuning everything down to 432Hz.
>
> Interestingly enough, 440Hz was adopted relatively recently.
As a matter of interest, when I was a wee lad, we had an old wood-framed piano
at home. This couldn't be tuned to 'modern' concert pitch and hanging on a hook
inside was a tuning fork marked 'C' 256 c/s (cycles per second). The keys were
genuine ivory, quite yellowed with age, and well worn too, with finger shaped
groves in the front lip of the most played ones.
-- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Sat Jun 25 16:15:03 2016
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