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Re: Interested in "magical" tones!

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From: Benjamin Weiner
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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From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
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Subject: Re: Interested in "magical" tones!
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