Question #692: 433 hz or higher

Feb 23, 2023#1

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Ol argedco luciftiassaid:
432 hertz is basically some meaningless new age idea. There is nothing special about it. Refering to what pitch the note A4 is tuned to, the most common way now is to tune A4 to 440 hertz. The people who promote A4=432 have some strange idea that this was some godly tuning that was used forever and this is the real true universal tuning, and they changed it to 440 to purposefully seperate people from the true tuning. This idea is just bullshit, there have been hundreds or even thousands of different tunings, many tunings have been extremely common or considered as standard at different times in different places.
If you like 432, then you can tune your instruments to it. But there is nothing special or magic about it. I have a 5 string bass that I tune with 432 tuning, and it sounds really good with the flatwound stainless steel strings I got on it. But I got all my other guitars and basses tuned with the usual 440.
Instead of changing the tuning of A4 to 432, I recommend leaving it at 440 and just using other tunings other than E standard. Like D standard or C standard both sound great, which come from tuning each string either 2 or 4 tones lower. Or Drop D, which is leaving all the strings in E standard but then lowering just the low E string down to a D. This gives you some different shapes, it's used in a lot of songs. In Drop D, a power chord can be done with just one finger because it is the lowest three strings held down together on the same fret.

Another thing since then is I now have a 6 string bass tuned to B flat standard / A# standard like the baritone guitar but an octave lower. It is easy because it is only a half note lower than regular 6 string bass tuning, except the G and C strings are F# and B to be like a guitar.

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https://ancient-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=40858

Ol argedco luciftiassaid:
432 hertz is basically some meaningless new age idea. There is nothing special about it. Refering to what pitch the note A4 is tuned to, the most common way now is to tune A4 to 440 hertz. The people who promote A4=432 have some strange idea that this was some godly tuning that was used forever and this is the real true universal tuning, and they changed it to 440 to purposefully seperate people from the true tuning. This idea is just bullshit, there have been hundreds or even thousands of different tunings, many tunings have been extremely common or considered as standard at different times in different places.
If you like 432, then you can tune your instruments to it. But there is nothing special or magic about it. I have a 5 string bass that I tune with 432 tuning, and it sounds really good with the flatwound stainless steel strings I got on it. But I got all my other guitars and basses tuned with the usual 440.
Instead of changing the tuning of A4 to 432, I recommend leaving it at 440 and just using other tunings other than E standard. Like D standard or C standard both sound great, which come from tuning each string either 2 or 4 tones lower. Or Drop D, which is leaving all the strings in E standard but then lowering just the low E string down to a D. This gives you some different shapes, it's used in a lot of songs. In Drop D, a power chord can be done with just one finger because it is the lowest three strings held down together on the same fret.