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Fiddlegal
Nickie McNichols

What the heck?

March 18, 2026, 4:35 PM · https://youtu.be/-EXcGaC6J90?si=BxHWfO43o1ol0e4W

I never knew this!

Replies (4)

VCalegon
Andrew Fryer
Edited: March 18, 2026, 6:50 PM · Random pre WW1 photos and the assertion that music doesn't contain frequencies lower than 440, and if A were 432, music wouldn't contain higher frequencies: quite apart from the obsession with A only. It also implies digital concerns that didn't exist in 1939. You work it out.
Sorry I want to go to bed so I just skimmed it.

Internet conspiracy crap. At least it's not as harmful as the political stuff

HajimeEda
Hajime Eda
March 18, 2026, 7:00 PM · FYI:
https://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20248/30092/
matesic
Steve Jones
March 19, 2026, 3:17 AM · It's what's known as a spoof. Unfortunately a very boring one.
VCalegon
Andrew Fryer
March 19, 2026, 4:43 AM · Since I didn't contribute to Laurie's thread, baroque 415 was chosen to be a semitone lower than A440 so that mobile keyboards could be moved one string down, Nickie.