Tuning WOO

[MrGongGong]

So following on from reading about Prince's online "interview" where he only made one statement about how all music should be tuned to A=432 I found a whole heap on nonsense.

We really do seem to have a science education crisis in the world

(there's loads of this stuff )

http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/08/440hz-music-conspiracy-to-detune-good-vibrations-from-natural-432hz.html

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgBWYnUNVXoLqlFlcAxyBLzAUACXrPwQ

and someone who actually knows what they are talking about (ship him off to Bath I say)

http://acousticengineering.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/pitch-shifting-to-432-hz-doesnt-improve-music/

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I agree. It's twaddle. But potentially lucrative twaddle for musical instrument manufacturers.

Mathematicians used to use C = 256 simply to facilitate their calculations.

[Bryn]

These 432 fanatics, when they move from A, what tuning do they use for other notes? How do they deal with the Pythgorean comma?

[Ah! I should have Googled first: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/fo...sage911295/pg1 ]

[rauschwerk]

These 432 fanatics, when they move from A, what tuning do they use for other notes? How do they deal with the Pythgorean comma?

[Ah! I should have Googled first: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/fo...sage911295/pg1 ]

That's another load of old prolate spheroids.

[Bryn]

That's another load of old prolate spheroids.

Indeed. Perhaps I should have included a

[Oh, and here's a viewpoint with which I can identify closely.]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[Oh, and here's a viewpoint with which I can identify closely.]

[Bryn]

By the way, I found that Gann piece by Googling "LaMonte Young 432" on a whim. It certainly came up trumps.

[David-G]

So following on from reading about Prince's online "interview" where he only made one statement about how all music should be tuned to A=432 ...

Oh dear! I missed this gem. Where can I find it?

[Bryn]

Well here's something from somebody still known as Prince.

[And here's the item that Prince apparently linked to in his Q & A Facebook item.]

[MrGongGong]

By the way, I found that Gann piece by Googling "LaMonte Young 432" on a whim. It certainly came up trumps.

La Monte knows his tuning
and Kyle's blog is always worth a read

[Don Petter]

Ten posts now, and I'm still no wiser as to what a WOO is.

Is it one of those Chinese zither things with strings everywhere?

[Bryn]

Ten posts now, and I'm still no wiser as to what a WOO is.

Is it one of those Chinese zither things with strings everywhere?

Never heard of Google?

[vinteuil]

Never heard of Google?

... yep, that google is a mighty fine thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoO_(Beethoven)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Woo

[Don Petter]

Never heard of Google?

Ah! The callsign for AT&T High Seas Service. Hence all the talk about the correct frequency for high seas?

[Serial_Apologist]

Ten posts now, and I'm still no wiser as to what a WOO is.

Is it one of those Chinese zither things with strings everywhere?

I thought it must be something to wit...