08-13-2013, 08:11 PM
I read somewhere that it was the Rockefeller Foundation who pushed for 440Hz as the standard "A".
When I found out about this, I downloaded a tone-generator and compared "A" at 432 Hz, 440 Hz, and 444 Hz (which some prefer, and which is also supposed to be spiritually beneficial). The site where I found the information about the "frequency conspiracy" also had links to two audio files, of the same piece; one played with "A" tuned to 440 Hz, the other slowed down until "A" equated to 432 Hz. Frankly, I preferred the 440 Hz version. Perhaps this was because the piece was artifically slowed, and not re-recorded live at 432 Hz.
In comparing the pure tones of the three frequencies, I was not particularly attracted to or repelled from any particular one; they were just tones. I was left with the impression that this was much ado about nothing.
When I found out about this, I downloaded a tone-generator and compared "A" at 432 Hz, 440 Hz, and 444 Hz (which some prefer, and which is also supposed to be spiritually beneficial). The site where I found the information about the "frequency conspiracy" also had links to two audio files, of the same piece; one played with "A" tuned to 440 Hz, the other slowed down until "A" equated to 432 Hz. Frankly, I preferred the 440 Hz version. Perhaps this was because the piece was artifically slowed, and not re-recorded live at 432 Hz.
In comparing the pure tones of the three frequencies, I was not particularly attracted to or repelled from any particular one; they were just tones. I was left with the impression that this was much ado about nothing.