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Greeeeeat, so now in addition to spam and snake oil salesmen we get global mind control conspiracy theories.
440Hz was introduced in Germany in late 1800’s and endorsed by American Federation of Musicians by 1917. The Nazi party was not considered active until the 1920’s.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4194106/440-hz-conspiracy-music/

Also, 440Hz is not a "recording frequency." It’s a tuning frequency. Has nothing to do with the electronics. Honey badger don’t care if you tune to 432 or 440. Modern recording equipment does as good a job with Western music as it does music around the world, which not only isn't tuned to 440, some, like gamelan groups, have no  standard at all. Each group is tuned separately, and those instruments only work for them. There’s nothing about this tuning which stresses out electronics any more or less either.


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Shouldn't it be 441 Hz, scaling down from the 44.1 kHz?

@twoleftears

I was confused at first, and no. The conspiracy theory he’s espousing has no relationship to recording equipment. He means the tuning frequency for A above middle-C.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A440_(pitch_standard)

From the darkest corners of the internet come all manner of conspiracy.
The trick is, not to fall for it. Just because it's written somewhere doesn't mean it's true.

Also, OP, you used "discordant" wrong.
The entire purpose of having a tuning standard is to ensure instruments are manufactured and tuned to the same frequency.


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discord#h1

Now had you come in here arguing keyboard temperament from the baroque until now, then we’d really have something to argue! Hahahahaha

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