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ulmutul:

--- Quote from: HERCULES1X on November 29, 2018, 07:03:47 PM ---The correct tuning is 432Hz [...]
[Classical Musicians] make sure music is correctly tuned to the particular theatre/opera house/auditorium the music is played in [...]

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You misconceive the concept of 'tuning'. If you tune your instrument, you change the ratio of fundamental frequency to the formants (fixed frequencies defined by the physical dimensions, material and construction of the instrument). You may get a better sound with a apecific instrument (especially if you can tune away a wolf tone), but most modern instruments are constructed to sound best if tuned to 440 Hz.

If you pitch already recorded music, you cannot change the ratio of fundamental/overtones or sound/room frequency etc., so better sounding/blending/whatsoever will just not happen.

If you nevertheless claim "Hey, it DOES sound better at 432 Hz!" then most likely the resonat frequencies of your headphone interfere with your music and you should consider buying better ones.


--- Quote from: HERCULES1X on November 29, 2018, 07:03:47 PM ---Those who deal with CLASSICAL MUSIC have known of this for years [...]

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I've never heard of any serious classical musician who favours 432 Hz tuning (neither contemporary nor historic).

P.S.:
If by chance anyone who is into this "8Hz Earth Tone"-thing read this post:
DON'T THOUGHTLESSLY PITCH TO 432 HZ, or you will severely RISK YOUR HEALTH!

I just read several 432 HZ internet pages, and all these guys inconsiderately assume that all music is written in the key of C.
But for example guitar music ist most often written in the key of G, E or A. However the Note G4 tuned at 432Hz is 4% off from being a perfect harmonic, while it IS perfect if tuned to 440Hz!

Things get much worse in the key of E: tuned to 440Hz E4 is 8.6% off (ouch!), but tuned to 432 Hz E4 is a tremendous 19.6% away from being "in sync" with the earth tone. HEADACHE GUARANTEED!

The key of A seems a sure thing for 432Hz at first glance; but 440Hz is also a perfect harmonic of 8Hz. Now have in mind that the second prominent note after the root note is the dominant, which is the note E - again 440Hz is the clear winner.

__builtin:
The "432 Hz is the voice of God" camp doesn't seem to understand the rather arbitrary nature of audio frequencies. Part of the myth is that 432 Hz gives some nice integer frequencies that A440 doesn't--and indeed it does--but this totally ignores the origin of the hertz.
A hertz is defined as 1 oscillation/second, which seems pretty logical, but keep in mind the completely arbitrary definition of the second as (originally) 1/86400 of a day, and now (with the newly revised SI) by "taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium-133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s^−1." There's definitely nothing "natural" about that.
By insisting on A432 instead of A440, you're essentially trading one arbitrary frequency for an equally arbitrary frequency--pretty pointless.

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