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The History of A=440


What's your take on the standard tuning (A 440 hz)?

As you know, through the history the standard tuning ranges from A 415 to 440 hz. However, even now, although the standard tuning is A440, ...

The long and oscillating history of standard tuning frequency

Most instruments today are tuned to 440 Hz, following ISO 16. But not the major orchestras! Absolute/relative pitch and psychoacoustics. Reference pitch is ...

Pitch standard in your country ? | The Accordionists Forum

I've also read somewhere that 440Hz tuning was promoted by the Nazis for all musical instruments as the pitch was said to incite warlike behaviour! 442Hz was ...

Articles - Pitch - Swenson's Piano Shop

A=440 was already recommended as a pitch standard in Germany in 1834. It appears that very few musicians found the standard pitch desirable. By 1879 Steinway in ...

International Standard Pitch: Why A=440 Hz? - GuitarMania.online

According to proponents of the 440Hz conspiracy theory, this frequency was introduced by… Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Germany minister of ...

440 vs 432 - The Steel Guitar Forum

1953 was when ISO declared 440 to be international standard for music. Before that, only Honer marine band harmonicas were 1st appearance of 440 ...

Verdi Tuning-- brief history - Schiller Institute

The first effort to institutionalize A=440 in fact was a conference organized by Joseph Goebbels in 1939, who had standardized A=440 as the official German ...

Why Do Orchestras Tune to an A Note? - Mental Floss

That's because across the world, most orchestras tune to the same A note, using a standard pitch of 440 hertz. ... History of Performing Pitch: ...

RE: A-440 vs 432 Hz?? - Foro Flamenco

In the late 19th century and early 20th century the reference pitch range narrowed again, to about 435-443 Hz. Finally the 1939 conference adopted 440 ...

In The Studio: The 440 Hz Conspiracy (Includes Video)

Prior to 1940 there were a variety of standards, although A=432 Hz (also known as “Verdi's A”) was the one most frequently used. It wasn't until ...

Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and ...

Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for ...

Course:PHYS341/2022/Project9 - UBC Wiki

In the History of Musical Pitch by musicologist Alexander J. Ellis, he clearly stated that before the standardization of concert pitch at A= ...

Time and Frequency from A to Z | NIST

A440 (sometimes called A4) is the 440 Hz tone that serves as the internationally recognized standard for musical pitch.

The Ultimate 432Hz VS 440Hz | CONSPIRACY + Comparison

... Eddy S: I see Guitar: Collings OM2H. The Ultimate 432Hz VS 440Hz | CONSPIRACY + Comparison. 5.3M views · 7 years ago ...more. Paul Davids.

A-440 and why we may not sound in tune, even when we are...

Before Scheibler and his tonometer, tuning was regional, often based on the pitches the church organ happened to be tuned to. The pitch we call ...

Cavanagh 440Hz | PDF | Pitch (Music) | Singing - Scribd

... 440 Hz was agreed upon in 1939, though pitch continued to ... present pitch standard in other articles about the history of pitch, including Kent, op.

A440 | Alternative Tunings, Verdi Tuning - Song Surgeon

While not an international standard, the American Standards Association recommended in 1936 that the A above middle C be tuned to 440 Hz. This standard was ...

Perfect Pitch: 432 Hz Music and the Promise of Frequency

Today's conspiracy theories about musical tuning are premised on the idea that music tuned to A-440 negatively affects the human body or mind ...

440 = A or 442+ = A (differences in tuning)? - Good-Music-Guide.com

The most vocal opponents of the upward tendency in pitch were singers, who complained that it was putting a strain on their voices. Largely due ...

History of Concert A=440 - The Clarinet BBoard

A=440 was actually in common use for orchestral type groups starting in about 1896. It was referred to as "Low Pitch" and instruments were often ...


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