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Article #4044Re: Interested in "magical" tones!
From: Benjamin Weiner
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:19
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:19
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> [according to LaRouche:] >All TRUE classical music was performed, according to this article, on a >slightly different scale-- I forget exactly where, but something like >A-435, i.e., indistinguishable from A-440 to the vast majority of humans >(except when played at or nearly at the same time, of course) Actually during the Baroque era the standard was about A=415 Hz. This is a fairly large difference (half a semitone?) Some early music people tune to this, I guess. I seem to recall that the old SCRIBE reference card used a program for the "415 Players," an early music ensemble, as its sample text. (Am I dating myself? SCRIBE was a text-processor that made nice output for your printer, which predated TeX and has now been utterly supplanted by it.) Anyway, the difference between A=415 and A=440 _is_ probably large enough to bring about world fascism and the decline of all cultural standards. That LaRouche, he's pretty sharp.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!ruhets.rutgers.edu!bweiner From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Interested in "magical" tones! Message-ID: <Sep.28.19.19.04.1992.13725@ruhets.rutgers.edu> Date: 28 Sep 92 23:19:04 GMT References: <Bv2LpK.44r@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <19sv62INNgid@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 17