Dare one point out that 440 is also divisible by 8? -- ddf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Scott wrote: > Kirsi Lassi wrote: > > > >The other week a customer of mine wanted me to tune her piano > >to the pitch a1= 432 Hz. > ... > >..having read in a newspaper about 12 years ago, > >that someone had found out that the whole universe sort of vibrates > >in a way, that everything is evenly divisible by eight. > ... > > If you are wondering if 432 Hz is "universal" because it is > divisible by 8, consider this: Since the number of cycles per > second is based on the definition of the second, you would first > have to show that the time interval of one second is in some > sense "universal". It is not. It is based on the completely > arbitrary way we divide a day into 86400 seconds. An isolated > civilization could just as well have come up with a different > unit of time under which the same pitch that we call 432 cycles > per second would be called 373.248 cycles per centon in their units. > (A centon is 1/100,000 of a day.) > > Bob Scott > Ann Arbor, Michigan
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