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I have no idea why this laughable article/idea persists, but the actual answer about 440 Hz is completely commercial and mundane. Decisions made by the J.C. Deagan mallet instrument company at 1770 W. Berteau in Chicago are the sole reasons why A=440. I once worked in this building, still called the Deagan building. The company made chimes and xylophones and instruments. They had customers all over the US. Each symph…
Where did the article that nazis were involved?
I have no idea why this laughable article/idea persists, but the actual answer about 440 Hz is completely commercial and mundane. Decisions made by the J.C. Deagan mallet instrument company at 1770 W. Berteau in Chicago are the sole reasons why A=440. I once worked in this building, still called the Deagan building. The company made chimes and xylophones and instruments. They had customers all over the US. Each symph…
For another example: http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/199804/1998.04.05.0...
(And by the way, the Deagan building is awesome! Glad the whole Ravenswood corridor is getting redone and readapted.)
Prince was also big into the 432 Hz thing vs. 440. 432 on guitar feels a little nicer overall but I like to play along to radio / DJ mixes for fun & practice and being at 432 feels off to me, so I stick with 440. 432 is good on acoustic, but then again open tuning sounds good on acoustic no matter if using 432 or 440.
I'd definitely be more inclined to trust in his musical intuition than his scientific aptitude though.
I have been following this for years, being both a sound engineer and a bit of a hippie who knows a lot of other hippies. The basic issue is that 432 is a numerologically interesting number compared to 440. So if it's more interesting it should be better for artistic purposes, goes the argument. However this falls flat as soon as you consider that the 432 is only interesting relative to the completely arbirtrary dura…
"if you take a track and play it a little bit faster or slower it still sounds great or awful as at the default speed in most cases." Yup. Another example: in most of the world (where the television system is PAL or SECAM) movies are played on TV or released on DVD at 25 frame per second. But to achieve this frame rate, they take the theatrical film release at 24 fps and speed the video and audio up by 25/24th (4.17%…
No. For NTSC they just drop (throw away) 1 frame from every 1000 frames, so there's no speed-up or speed-down in audio track.
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Second sentence.
The second sentence makes no such claim. If you scroll further down you'll see > Why do we use A = 440 Hz? (spoiler: no Nazis)
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The second sentence makes no such claim. If you scroll further down you'll see > Why do we use A = 440 Hz? (spoiler: no Nazis)
Right, the second sentence describes a conspiracy theory, and the end of the article dismisses this theory. The person you were replying to concurs with this dismissal, and presents additional evidence.
> I have no idea why this laughable article/idea persists
Mathematician Here: Pitagora, who discovered music, studied that the lower sound we can Here clear is 27hz, and 432 is a multiple of 27. 27hz is A, and so it is 432hz. 432hz makes a lot of sense, other than that it is up to the director if the orchestra tune on 432 or 440, but since the vibration is so powerful, especially the resonance, it makes sense to use 432 to keep harmony, in my opinion.
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> current which produces 2 × 10−7 N/m of force between two parallel conductors Hate to be a stickler, but: "...conductors of negligible cross-section and of infinite length." It's still one of my least favorite SI definitions.
If anybody wants to read lots of commentary on units and their definitions, take a look at the data sheets for the Frink language. The ampere and the candela are two of the more irksome ones, as described by the author. https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt