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432 tuning

i always just thought it ( 440 ) was an agreed upon tuning so we'd all be 'in tune ' ... world wide .. !?

kinda like MIDI info in the early 80's ... !? with Yamaha , Korg , and Roland trying to ' make the rules ' ...
of which i thought Yamaha / DX7 rather lead the way ...

when i was in High School (1974 ) ... my jazz piano teacher had a newer Yamaha grand upstairs ( 440 ) and a very old late 1800's baby grand down stairs ( Chickering .? ) which was tuned to 427 .. ? which was imprinted on the metal plate where the tuning pins are ..

different tunings better/worse ... = daft
 
Eh...as long as everyone is in tune with each other, all that matters (to me)...try playing along with Fair Warning/Van Halen album. Just about every song is slightly different tuning-wise, they just tuned to Eddie's guitar, whatever pitch he was at the time.
This to me falls in the same category as people getting bent out of shape about transposing songs to a different key..." it feels different in a different key, it's darker, happier, etc". Playing covers as long as I have, it's all about matching the singers range, the intervals in the song are the same, just a different pitch. I guess I'm not "blessed" with perfect pitch or seeing/feeling colors attached to keys. To paraphrase Rodney King, "why can't we all just get along (in tune).
MJ
 
LOL.....what is meant by 'going Burger King?' New one.

Sorry, it's a bit of military slang. When everyone is supposed to be doing something one way, and someone does something else instead (usually to disastrous effect) then that person gets called a Burger King, in reference to the old Burger King restaurant commercial slogan: "Have It Your Way". :)
 
According to attunedvibrations.com

  1. A=432 Hz, known as Verdi's 'A' is an alternative tuning that is mathematically consistent with the universe. Music based on 432Hz transmits beneficial healing energy, because it is a pure tone of math fundamental to nature. The universal music of sacred geometry.
 
I got into an argument with a guy about this. I was looking it up, and apparently a cult group in the 50s claimed that A440 was "brainwashing by the government to make people angry", and they claimed that A444 tuning would resonate with nature and love.

Then the guy said, "But don't you notice that when you hear a note out of tune it makes you confused? Like, kind of angry?"

I couldn't stop laughing, I had to stop arguing. Obviously someone's never heard of microtonal music.
 
Actually we all might be wrong:

Dr. Horowitz states-
528 is clearly all about LOVE, PEACE, and FREEDOM, and 432 has been selected by agents of FEAR, WAR, AND SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT, to defeat the “528LOVERevolution.” There is no better explanation, nor more reasonable conclusion, because to attack 528, is to attack the heart of a) nature; b) water molecules; c) rainbows; d) sunshine; e) the sun itself; f) water crystals; g) chlorophyll in the botanical world, producing; h) oxygen that sustains us with the electron of LOVE vibrating in 528; i) your heart; j) my heart; k) the Creator’s heart; l) the laws of physics, and the reason there are precisely 5280 feet in a measured mile. - See more at: 432 Hz Fraud Advanced by Psychopaths to Destroy LOVE Played in 528 Hz - War On We The People:
 
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Actually we might all be wrong:

Dr. Horowitz states-
528 is clearly all about LOVE, PEACE, and FREEDOM, and 432 has been selected by agents of FEAR, WAR, AND SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT, to defeat the “528LOVERevolution.” There is no better explanation, nor more reasonable conclusion, because to attack 528, is to attack the heart of a) nature; b) water molecules; c) rainbows; d) sunshine; e) the sun itself; f) water crystals; g) chlorophyll in the botanical world, producing; h) oxygen that sustains us with the electron of LOVE vibrating in 528; i) your heart; j) my heart; k) the Creator’s heart; l) the laws of physics, and the reason there are precisely 5280 feet in a measured mile. - See more at: 432 Hz Fraud Advanced by Psychopaths to Destroy LOVE Played in 528 Hz - War On We The People:
God damn it. I must have listened to too much 432 Hz lie music because this is shaging ridiculous.
 
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