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Post by andyhowell on Aug 21, 2018 7:28:45 GMT
I’ve just seen this on another forum:
Should I tune to A442 hz as I want to be in tune with the earth’s natural 8hz resonance.
FFS.
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Post by oustudent on Aug 21, 2018 8:07:41 GMT
Martin Taylor tunes to A442
John
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Post by davewhite on Aug 21, 2018 8:15:42 GMT
I’ve just seen this on another forum: Should I tune to A442 hz as I want to be in tune with the earth’s natural 8hz resonance. FFS. Only if you are using an OM guitar
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Post by ocarolan on Aug 21, 2018 8:26:17 GMT
Well, it makes a change from all that 432 and 538 bollocks stuff I suppose.
"Standard" pitch has been defined at various frequencies over the years. A=440 is a relatively recent convention.
I'm just glad to wake up each morning to find I actually still am resonating at all.
So far...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2018 8:40:48 GMT
I don’t get it? Why would 442 be more in tune with 8hz? 442 divided by 8 is 55.25, whereas 440 divided by 8 is 55. I would have thought mathematically speaking 440 is the more resonant???
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Post by andyhowell on Aug 21, 2018 8:43:25 GMT
Martin Taylor tunes to A442 John That's jazz :-)
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Post by earthbalm on Aug 21, 2018 8:44:17 GMT
I’ve just seen this on another forum: Should I tune to A442 hz as I want to be in tune with the earth’s natural 8hz resonance. FFS. Only if you are using an OM guitar That, Mr White, is brilliant!
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Post by andyhowell on Aug 21, 2018 8:45:19 GMT
I played for a while with a mate who was a bit mystical ....
In the early days of digital tuners he turned up one day and the sound seemed odd all day. He'd tuned to 432. I asked him why. I thought Id be different. Sounded dreadful :-)
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Post by Phil Taylor on Aug 21, 2018 8:54:05 GMT
Martin Taylor tunes to A442 John Ahhhhhh that's why I don't sound like Martin Taylor when I try to play his stuff Phil
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Post by bleatoid on Aug 21, 2018 9:00:56 GMT
Guys, guys, get with it.
The A440 has been closed for bridge repair works, and while the A442 is a pretty poor diversion. It will get you to Telford, which as we know, is never a good thing.
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Post by ianh on Aug 21, 2018 9:01:12 GMT
I find this all a bit odd, but sufficiently odd that I did a bit of googling to find out more. The most useful piece I found (from a website known as Attuned Vibrations. I kid you not.) is this:
"On the musical scale where A has a frequency of 440Hz, the note C is at about 261.656 Hz. On the other hand, if we take 8Hz as our starting point and work upwards by five octaves (i.e. by the seven notes in the scale five times), we reach a frequency of 256Hz in whose scale the note A has a frequency of 432Hz.
According to the harmonic principle by which any produced sound automatically resonates all the other multiples of that frequency, when we play C at 256 Hz, the C of all other octaves also begins to vibrate in “sympathy” and so, naturally, the frequency of 8Hz is also sounded. This is why (together with many other mathematical reasons) the musical pitch tuned to 432 oscillations per second is known as the “scientific tuning.”
This tuning was unanimously approved at the Congress of Italian musicians in 1881 and recommended by the physicists Joseph Sauveur and Felix Savart as well as by the Italian scientist Bartolomeo Grassi Landi."
At least that answers the very pertinent comment from @robbiej about the basic maths of it......
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Post by andyhowell on Aug 21, 2018 9:03:09 GMT
No mention of the earth's resonance there!
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Post by ianh on Aug 21, 2018 9:03:52 GMT
I should have added that the 8Hz is the fundamental frequency of the so-called Schumann resonances, which is the vibrational frequency of the earth's magnetic field.
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Post by ianh on Aug 21, 2018 9:04:18 GMT
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Post by colins on Aug 21, 2018 9:22:10 GMT
Hey, now we have my subject for the Halifax lecture, I could spend the whole three days telling you about seismology and the way the earth vibrates, I have spent my whole life studying it! Don't bother bringing a guitar, just your note books and best brain cells. Halifax is going to be such fun.
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