Re: A = 440 Hz OR 432 Hz?

[Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

Am 10.11.2012 06:04, schrieb Ben Edwards:
> But if instruments were resonant with 432 wouldn't the harmonics 
> "sound nicer" and vice versa?  Therefor any culture that
It depends a lot on what you define as "nice". Instrument makers 
typically tell you that you should tune above the resonances for a nicer 
sound - go figure *.
Furthermore, the resonances are where the instrument maker makes them to 
be - so again, no nature-given law, but human design.

            Rainer

*: the reason for that in system design is that you can tune (sic!) the 
system behaviour in a more stable fashion.