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Some idea of the variance in pitches can be gained by examining old pitchpipes, organ pipes and other sources. For example, an English pitchpipe from 1720 plays the A above middle C at 380 Hz, while the organs played by Johann Sebastian Bach in Hamburg, Leipzig and Weimar were pitched at A = 480 Hz, a difference of around four semitones. In other words, the A produced by the 1720 pitchpipe would have been at the same frequency as the F on one of Bach's organs. From the early 18th century, pitch could be also controlled with the use of tuning forks (invented in 1711), although again there was variation. For example, a tuning fork associated with Handel, dating from 1740, is pitched at A = 422.5 Hz, while a later one from 1780 is pitched at A = 409 Hz, almost a semitone lower. Nonetheless, there was a tendency towards the end of the 18th century for the frequency of the A above middle C to be in the range of 400 to 450 Hz
Originally posted by hawk123
In the book "The History of Music": (page 491),
books.google.com...
the german Johann Heinrich Scheibler advocated in 1834 the Stuttgart pitch. (A=440 and C=528)
It includes again the 528 Baphomet code, which can also be found in Solfeggio.
Scheibler's recommendation for A=440 as an international pitch standard had been adopted by a Congress of Physicists (Deutsche Naturforscherversammlung) in Stuttgart in 1834
[edit on 21-12-2008 by hawk123]
Originally posted by nscopheacriaaclters
Originally posted by hawk123
In the book "The History of Music": (page 491),
books.google.com...
the german Johann Heinrich Scheibler advocated in 1834 the Stuttgart pitch. (A=440 and C=528)
It includes again the 528 Baphomet code, which can also be found in Solfeggio.
Scheibler's recommendation for A=440 as an international pitch standard had been adopted by a Congress of Physicists (Deutsche Naturforscherversammlung) in Stuttgart in 1834
[edit on 21-12-2008 by hawk123]
They should have listened to Sauveur and adopted C 256.
[edit on 21-12-2008 by nscopheacriaaclters]
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
Convert all units to SI and then try it.
What is second? Can you describe what a second is? What type of measurements is time? Go study some relativity, and stop trying to use math before you know how the hell to use it.
It's ridiculous to assume the old music was based on an A at 432Hz!
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
Convert all units to SI and then try it. The rest of the world doesn't work in miles and feet.
Largely due to their (vocalists') protests, the French government passed a law on February 16, 1859 which set the A above middle C at 435 Hz. This was the first attempt to standardize pitch on such a scale, and was known as the diapason normal. It became quite a popular pitch standard outside of France as well, and has also been known at various times as French pitch, continental pitch or international pitch (the last of these not to be confused with the 1939 "international standard pitch" described below).
Originally posted by hawk123
Happy newyear, but is there any newyears concert in 432 Hertz.
Originally posted by ipsedixit
Largely due to their (vocalists') protests, the French government passed a law on February 16, 1859 which set the A above middle C at 435 Hz. This was the first attempt to standardize pitch on such a scale, and was known as the diapason normal.
en.wikipedia.org...
For example, in the premier of Handel’s Messiah, Handel used a tuning fork ( which we still. have!) that vibrates at 423 Hz. The difference from modern ...
www-unix.oit.umass.edu...
Originally posted by Maya432
michial,
the only ones discussing nazi`s on this thread is ....um....YOU
you on a Nazi kick or something??
Goebbels was a genius at the art of controlling the masses
regardless of his employment at the time.
( by that I mean I don`t care where he came from or who he served.)
the fact still stands that he had a hand in trying to make 440
the "WORLD STANDARD CONCERT PITCH".
and at that time Goebbels was the UNDISPUTED KING
of Propaganda.