Re: [LAU] Piano composition - Lost Isle (& LV2 plugins) - Linux-audio-user

25 Jun 2016

On Jun 25, 2016 04:58, Will Godfrey &lt;willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk&gt; wrote:
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 On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 06:46:37 -0400 
 &quot;jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com&quot; &lt;jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com&gt; wrote: 

  On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:19:22 +0200 
 fred &lt;f.rech(a)yahoo.fr&gt; 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.  
I have my grandmother's piano (still at my parents' house and likely to remain
there), an upright grand that was made in 1900. Been kept in tune all these years.

Real pianos are nice.

David W. Jones
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