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Re: A = 440 Hz OR 432 Hz?

''Perfect pitch is not a skill, it's a disease'' haha yes made me laugh, 
totally agree it's all relative to ratio relationships
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Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:18:37 am
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
From: "Stefan Tiedje" <stefantiedje@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: A = 440 Hz OR 432 Hz?

Am 08.11.12 07:37, schrieb mark francombe:
> Oh really, you think that music that is 8 cents different will do that?
> What happens if you play 100 cents out? Oh yeah... a new key... Cant say
> Ive been feeling those shifts into heart music when I operate My whammy 
> bar.

The difference is 8 Hz! at that pitch its 32 cent. (Max is great to 
calculate things like that...)

The only thing I believe is relevant, are the instruments. As Per said 
already, his flute doesn't fit to a base 32 cent off the one the 
instrument was intended to be tuned to.

All baroque musicians I know tune to lower pitches. Their instruments 
are made for that. If you think about it, it's actually not too much of 
a mystery to find out which pitches had been used in ancient times. Many 
of these old instruments have been kept alive over all these centuries.
Tune them to what sounds best and your heart will open, simply because 
you love the sound. It is the sound, not the frequency...

Perfect pitch is not a skill, its a disease... But if you are trained to 
perfect pitch @ A 440, any pitch based on 432 will sound wrong by 32 
cents. But this also applies to equal tempered scales, if you "perfect" 
pitch is trained to that, even a perfect third will not sound perfect...
There are rumors that listening to such tunings can cure this disease...;-)

Stefan

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