25 Jun
2016
25 Jun
'16
1:58 p.m.
On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 06:46:37 -0400
"jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com" <jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com> wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:19:22 +0200
fred <f.rech(a)yahoo.fr> wrote:
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.
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.