432 Hz? You Miiiight Want To Check Your Sources

I tune my A to 4.32 Hz so only Elephants can enjoy it. Since then my audience got HEAVYLY invested in my music.

That explains why after tuning everything 432Hz Youtube and instagram started to recommend those Alpha and sigma male channels, I read the word "Agenda" so many times it lost it's meaning to me.

I love Neely's video and often link it to people online. As a professional piano tuner, the A432 thing just makes me laugh. Pianos are not only tuned to Equal Temperament, which results in lots of irrational numbers for each pitch other than A4, but must also be stretch tuned, so they don't even follow the actual mathematical formula for Equal Temperament, instead varying wildly as you go up and down the octaves. This means that tuning A4 to 432Hz often doesn't result in C4 being exactly 256Hz anyway. It can vary by half a Hertz or more depending on the size of the piano, the length of the strings, how the piano is scaled, etc. It's usually another irrational number like 256.12Hz or 256.73Hz. It's all just nonsense that preys on one's ignorance.

So according to history, you're fascist if you like 440, and you're fascist if you like 432. Sounds fair.

Couldn't have predicted LaRouche would make an appearance. Truly one of the most unhinged people in modern history.

Yep. Aphex Twin's 'Come to Daddy' at 432 Hz is SOOOo much more calming.... 😏

Most people probably don’t listen to either 440 or 432 anyway. Often songs are played pitched up on the radio. Older recordings were sometimes pitched up when recorded on tape with varispeed to sound more energetic or to get all the separate recordings in the same pitch (e.g. Beatles “Strawberry Fields”). Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” was pitched up and sounds better pitched up, but also crashed particular hard drives. Adam Neely has a good video about this also. And then there’s DJ mixes played at varying tempos. If anything, tempo probably has more of an effect on mood or anxiety than actual tuning. That’s why it’s called “down tempo” or “up beat”.

From my experiences either in pro big band, or jazz combo, we usually ask for the piano to be tuned at 441 or 442 Hz, because the brass (I was trumpeter) are often higher in tune. The temperature variations make the sax/brass instruments drift. And moreover I recorded a small year ago with a bagad (breton trad orchestra) and a 7tet, with very high tuned instruments, so we had to tune up till 448 Hz (we could see it on the rev 2) and still felt low in tune. (And then, I don't think being the only one feeling that 440 Hz is low^^). But It's not - in my opinion - a subject worth to talk much about.

I agree with you. 440Hz is just a convenience to make instruments play in harmony, nothing more. Music can be out of tune in any way you want. In the early days I did that a few times myself by accident because I started with a sample of something that wasn't an instrument to begin with (and then tuned all other sounds to it, instead of the other way around...)

I bumped into this first in 1989 when some people in my little town talked about their weird political party. And one of the pamphlets was about 432Hz. It started with "this is more authentic and how old music is supposed to sound", well, OK, that sounds reasonable and interesting. Aaaaaand then they started talking about the natural resonance of the spheres of heaven. 😀And also they wanted to colonize Mars, because that would somehow create world peace. And yeah, that's how I discovered the LaRouche cult. What nutcases.

20 years ago I discovered the Flashbulb and enjoyed it a lot, time passed, and now I discover that you are not only a great musician but also someone who has a lot of interesting things to say. So I just want to say thanks !

As a music therapist myself, I always feel like you validate so much about my experience. We, as music therapists, are dealing with these misconceptions like 432 Hz and the Mozart effect and how they impact what people think I do (which is not magic lol).

That was a wild, wild ride! It's just so impressive how many skills you possess in music making, research, and public communication.

Honestly as an Italian I've never heard of 432hz outside of American/ English YouTube. Will ask around, this was extremely interesting!

I used to use it in electronic music programming because 432 is divisible by 2 and by 3 to high powers, which made the math easy.

i absolutely love your videos, the research you do and especially how you present the research alongside your claims. that should not even be extra ordinary, but it is, so i really really appreciate it

I always wondered where this conversation came from..."Post truth" is right. There seems to be a collective revisiting of these fascist watermarks, that is entirely intentional. I'm glad that people are picking up on it, and you are sharing this, on your platform. Great work!

The little sound edits tuning down when you speak the words are so damn cool and immersive

You know, I did an experiment for a highschool psychology class regarding 432 tuning, and I found no correlation. Granted, my method was based on a highly subjective ranking of how relaxing a song was to a person, and my sample size was something like 8 teenagers, but if we want to be dealing with tiny and poorly conducted studies, I feel we should add my research to the pile.

This was excellent. I wish there was content like this about the 528hZ solfeggio stuff too. Many of the websites promoting these concepts of present the two as if they are both simultaneously true, and they are wildly inharmonic with each other. One other thing I would like to note is that many of the 432 proponents also wish to abandon even temperament and use whole number values for note frequencies. Which would make simply tuning your instruments or recordings down 32cents insufficient anyway. The vast majority of music made in 432 is still even temperament though, negating much of the claimed of esoteric value. The whole thing doesn't stan up to the least bit of critical investigation.