On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:45:34 -0400, jonetsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >Even today, some philharmonic orchestras are not tuned to A 440Hz. >Other tunings are certainly not dramatically off from 440Hz, but this >is just to say that A 440Hz is not set in stone. There are reasons even for pop music to chose another pitch for A. There are reasons to chose different temperaments. Non of those reasons should be esoteric. FWIW a while back it was common practise not necessarily to chose another tuning for A in pop music, but to e.g. drop the e string of e. guitars down to d. The reasons should be playing technique, tone color etc.. No tuning ever could be consistent or inconsistent to the universe. A tuning only could be consistent or inconsistent to a human fashion or esoteric magic of numbers. On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:47:18 -0400, jonetsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:24:27 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> What does it mean to be "mathematically consistent with the >> universe"? A=424,242 Hz would be mathematically inconsistent with >> the universe? > >Haven't done the maths although it should be reasonably accessible. To do the maths we need to know for what it should be applied. The secret of 432Hz perhaps leads to cold fusion, the perpetuum mobile car engine, the length of gods long white beard? 432Hz in relation to speed of light, Gauß, Planck, age of Mohammed youngest wife, virgins in paradise? If e.g. speed in relation to the speed of light, then measured in miles or meters or multiüple units of god's beard length? Are seconds consistent to the universe? Assumed we should find the perfect measuring units, what should be the expected result? A prime number, a set or perhaps as mentioned by Set a Fibonacci number? My choice for universe consistency is Douglas Adams Holy Trinity 424,242 Hz, but I don't know the question, resp. against what the maths should be applied. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
