Apparently 440 is something of a recent decision and standard tuning has been gradually creeping up to capture the brighter sound. Baroque- period instruments were tuned in the 430s. I like the lower pitches myself ... dark and spooky. But who's gonna argue with all those tuners.
On Aug 20, 7:08 pm, Mike Hedding <[email protected]> wrote: > My brother showed me this today: > > http://ramusic.com/ > > Basically this guy has a theory that A=440 was a man made decision > about where to tune to and he has this theory that A=424 is actually > the frequency where nature is in tune with. He bases his theory on > some mathematical calculations. > > He suggests that music may be more enjoyable and bring about deeper > feelings from your body if you're tuned to 424 rather than 440. > > There's a video on his site you can watch about it. > > My brother and I both tuned down to 424 (slightly less than a half > step flat) and jammed for a little today and it did sound nice... did > it sound noticeably better? I can't really say it did. Plus for me it > was hard to judge it objectively because I had just watched the video > and it put suggestions into my head that 424 was "more in tune with > nature" than 440. > > Definitely interesting whether you buy into it or not. > > Anyone else heard of this or tried it? > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
