The importance of 432 hz

[Carl G.]

Interesting article:
http://higherperspective.com/2013/12...tm_source=ETT#

[soundchicken]

Interesting

[PhaseShifter]

Like the myth of a "coming soon" feature for SAC, so is the tale of 432 Hz.

[Angie]

About 10 years ago, when Chris was the audio producer at Gaiam, the founder of the company wanted to experiment with 432 tuning with the idea of possibly producing a commercial CD of modern classics in 432.
Chris was asked to record some musicians doing a couple songs first in 440 then in 432. The hard part was finding a place that would allow a piano to be tuned at 432 and a guitarist who was willing to do the same. The project never got passed the experimental stage, probably because the founder discovered a new interest. But it was fun. I came across the CDs of the sessions a couple days ago.

[Mattseymour]

Sounds like a load of arse to me.

[dasbin]

Agreed. No legit evidence presented, just some bollocks about how it unifies life and the universe. Uh... ok.
Even if 432Hz was some magically special frequency that actually made all humans feel a particular way (very unlikely), tuning instruments to A=432Hz doesn't mean it makes a song feel that way... unless the song is a continuous 432Hz sine wave and nothing else.

You could easily pitch-shift some songs to see if you like it, but that still says nothing about 432Hz at all. It just says you happen to like those particular songs played a bit flat (they might not even be in A, or have an A anywhere in them!)

[sebastiandybing]

Its seems to be common place to perform
music before 1800 at 435hz,

[sebastiandybing]

Ah sorry I ment 415hz, for ensambles
trying to recreat the original sound.

[Bruce Callaway]

I fellow I am recording with wants to use 432hz, I am not sold on the universe and everything angle however am aware that early classical tuning was 415hz. May be worth a try with guitars but as Angie said, harder with pianos.

[Angie]

I fellow I am recording with wants to use 432hz, I am not sold on the universe and everything angle however am aware that early classical tuning was 415hz. May be worth a try with guitars but as Angie said, harder with pianos.

As I recall, Chris had more trouble finding a guitar player who wanted to re-tune.

Wasn't 432 also used in some early classical?