Re: [Harp-L] A-432

[Kevin <kham27@xxxxxxxxx>]

432 is the natures sound. You feel the music more in your chest and body
whereasnormal concert pitch you hear more in your head. More cerebral. The
natural sounds (432) is also said to be able to heal people through the
natural vibrations. There's a lot to be said about natural vibrations,
nature deficiency syndrome (which I call ADD) and getting back to slower
vibrations and turning off this computer...

Good vibrations to everyone!

Kevin

On 25 December 2014 at 16:28, Trip <trip.tunes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Merry Christmas everybody!
>
> My friend who was inquiring about tuning his harps down to A432 is a
> killer folk musician - not a historian or a musicologist, he's what Pete
> Seeger referred to as a practitioner in "the folk process", half truths and
> tall tales. If you want the real deal always listen up when Winslow speaks.
>
> Here's a taste of my friend doing what he does best. There are two clips
> here, one with Ernie and his musical partner in the Four O'clock Flowers
> and then Ernie, Jackson Lynch and myself playing at a memorial a couple
> weeks ago for the late Allan Block who's sandal shop in Greenwich Village
> in the late 50s and early 60s was where folks came to jam after Washington
> Square picking ended. Seated in the front row and about to join us on stage
> to also pay tribute were Rory Block, Maria Mulduar, Happy Traum, Josh White
> Jr, Stefan Grossman, and other notables.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> http://youtu.be/J1Wo73d7B2s
>
> http://youtu.be/qSBdeJCiDXk
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> --
> Trip Henderson
> https://soundcloud.com/trip-henderson
> www.youtube.com/user/TheWhistlingWolves
>
>
> > On Dec 25, 2014, at 2:21 AM, Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > The history of pitch standards is far more complex than Trip's friend
> suggests. The Nazi story is not supported by the timeline of A440, which
> was standardized in the United States as early as 1926.
> >
> > From the Wikipedia A440 article: "Prior to the standardization on 440
> Hz, many countries and organizations followed the Austrian government's
> 1885 recommendation of 435 Hz. The American music industry reached an
> informal standard of 440 Hz in 1926, and some began using it in instrument
> manufacturing. In 1936 the American Standards Association recommended that
> the A above middle C be tuned to 440 Hz.[1] This standard was taken up by
> the International Organization for Standardization in 1955 (reaffirmed by
> them in 1975) as ISO 16.[2] Although not universally accepted, since then
> it has served as the audio frequency reference for the calibration of
> acoustic equipment and the tuning of pianos, violins, and other musical
> instruments."
> >
> > For more historical depth on the subject, try:
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch#History_of_pitch_standards_in_Western_music
> > Winslow
> > zzzz
> > ________________________________
> > From: Trip <trip.tunes@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "<harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 1:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Harp-L] A-432
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > For those who have asked why the heck would you want to drop tune to
> A432 the following is from my friend who asked me about the possibilities.
> >
> > "Well, tuning standards varied widely among composers and orchestras
> until the 50's when A440 became standardized, at least in the US. Verdi,
> for example, and others preferred a flatter standard like 432 because it
> produced softer and sweeter tones. A strange but serious anecdote to this
> story is that a high-ranking Nazi official believed that 440 music would
> elicit more aggressive responses from the audience and he was able to
> convince the government to impose that tuning as the nation-wide standard
> sometime in the early 40's, I believe. To get a little more heavy about it,
> the frequencies of notes and overtones in the 432 spectrum have a higher
> incidence of falling in line with the numerical sequences of Phi, aka the
> Fibonacci sequence or the Golden Ratio; i.e. the ratio of what we tend to
> find aesthetically pleasing in nature. Me personally, I've often played
> with my guitar tuned that way and I like the sound and it's easier to hit
> notes, but I've always been held back slightly by not being able to
> incorporate my harps into it. So I'm interested in seeing if I could
> customize just one set of harps to use for my own purposes. That's the long
> answer. "
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> > --
> > Trip Henderson
> > https://soundcloud.com/trip-henderson
> > www.youtube.com/user/TheWhistlingWolves
>