Re: Harmony of the universe Hi Del, and thanks for your interest! >Dare one point out that 440 is also divisible by 8? I know... I could quote my original message: >"With normal pianos 440 is already "in harmony" but when we come across some piano that can't be taken up to normal, why not try the 432, if it makes your customer's health better?" "in harmony" meaning divisible by eight. By the way, the orchestras in Finland use 442 Hz, you see, we try to keep the world from becoming an uniformly nice and dull place. Kirsi > >-- 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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