HISTORY OF PITCH: 440hz vs 432hz 

Why is there so much music stuff on this cooking channel?

I think it's great how 420 hertz and 666 hertz actually sound good together. They sound close to an inverted major third interval. Who knew Satan and Marijuana went so well together!

Is it bad that I actually laughed at the "hertz - hurts" joke?

Frank, thanks so much for making such an awesome video! I do agree frequency is subjective but when you look at the mathematical uses of A =432 thats where it becomes a little more than just taste. Johaness Kepler used this tuning and he would use string length to figure out how the planets worked in space and he actually proved that the planets moved in an elipse instead of perfect circles as it was believed in time all by using harmonic scales. All im saying is, scientific pitch might not be just hocus pocus. theres definitely more to it. either way, your video was really informative and im glad its out there!

420hz is my fav pitch

its weird to think that music is essentially mathematics in noise

5:23 "Divided by the mass of the string" Important distinction here, Frank. Mass of string =/= Mass PER UNIT LENGTH OF STRING Instead of just whomping in the mass of the piece of rope, it's kind of like the mass of a standard meter of rope. Or the appropriate ratio of however long that rope is per its measured weight. But this is an amazing video nonetheless, and is not like the brainless masses you see from other youtubers who only care about pretty sand formations.

Vielen Dank. (is german and means "[That is] very dank"")

This is honestly really informative

I learned much more from this video than the whole 13 years of music school...

Nice balance of humour and info :-)

yo frank thanks for the video, this is super informative. Where did you find all the information? Wikipedia? (im not trying to diss you, just curious)

you use gymnopedie no. 1 quite a bit

Liked it! :) Tho with educational-like videos I always expect a HUGE super bibliography section. Would you consider doing it next time?

This is amazing! For someone who is gonna do music in college this could be really helpful. I'd love more music history from you!

Hey Frank, I would love to contribute with Portuguese subtitles, as I have a bunch of friends who would like to watch this but that, unfortunetly, don't know any English. I can I do it?

What if you named a discovery after yourself, but then had a better discovery and couldn't name it after yourself because you already named another one after yourself.

Pretty much, 432 hz is just a "flat earth" conspiracy for musicians lmao

I love these types of videos Frankie

Excellent. Certainly one of the best documentaries I've seen!

A=440Hz is not standard for all Western orchestras. Many in Europe use 442Hz.

If a person doesn't have perfect pitch, they won't tell a difference anyway. Only difference those old kings could tell is RIGHT AFTER some edict to go from 430 to 435 or 440. The very next concert they hear would sound higher so that would translate to BRIGHTER, HAPPIER, etc. But on the whole, it really doesn't matter because you are always just a semitone away from a new note anyway. Just play the piece transposed up 1 semitone and fuggetaboutit.

The way you create these short "documentaries" is stunning. *_The perfect mixture between informative and entertaining !_*

432Hz feels easy on the throat when singing because it is close to the voices relaxed resonance. For my voice the A3/E4 which sits between chest and middle and middle and chest respectively placed with a lot of tension at 440Hz not at 432Hz.. Here is my view on the matter... 430-432Hz is very relaxed and hence perfect for music that has that purpose. 440Hz is filled with throat tension and hence feels stressed to the mind and its perfect for music that wants to promote those emotions.. I am convinced that the standard pitch should never have gone higher than the 1859 French standard at 435Hz to preserv voices.. I can't stand to listen to opera at modern pitches which often are att 442-443Hz.... Yeicks the tenors and sopranos sound terrible to my ears.. At home I tune the guitar to A4=434Hz (-23.77 cents) and it just feels "right" ,, 440Hz forces the notes to sit too high in the throat.. A very unnatural feel.. If I tune down to 430Hz (-39.8 cents) the balance just not seem "right" for pop/rock music..Its great though for songs where I cross the second passaggio and go into my head register,, but my chest notes start getting to sunk down for songs with lower notes .. (I am in the same vocal fach as Mark knopfler and tuning down to 430Hz things gets to tubby),.. PS: Standard G#4 in equal temper is 415.3Hz not 420Hz...

I thank you for this video!

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Ahhhh I have perfect pitch and it kinda fucks with my mind to imagine an A at anything other than right around 440. Like you got me going to wiki reading up on concert pitch, and way back in the medieval ages A sat at 415 Hz, which is SO much flatter than where it's at today. My brain literally can't even

-0.32 semitones... you know what, i'll just put the vst-effect "elastique" on every instrument without finetuning-option

Equal temperament of western music makes the 440hz v. 432hz debate meaningless. A= 432hz on a guitar or piano means that only the A's are in that tuning. Each note is not derived from the pure divisions of the harmonic overtone series. Equal temperament is arguably a more corrosive development than 440 tuning, but I don't think it matters much either way. There are pros and cons of each avenue, but only in the context of composition, not the demonic or angelic effects the frequency may have on your psyche. Choirs can sing using perfect intonation, because the micro tonal adjustments can be done on the fly, by ear. As Europeans developed instruments and started playing them together, they realized compromises had to be made a bit here and there on the tuning of each note if they wanted to acheive maximum versatility. The distinct quality of each scale is lost, but you gain the capacity of multiple octaves with coherent key changes and intuitive modal possibilities. The differences of tunings are so minor, and people try to show how ugly one frequency is using sand or whatever, but the human mind messes with our perception, usually for the better. Our eyes pick up the world upside down, but our brain flips the image in real time so everything is always the right way. Our ears and brain probably have a similar relationship. I think most of the beauty in music is caused by the way the intervals of all the notes in a song interact with each other. It's more abstract than specific. Master site readers can hear a new piece by looking at the sheet. They turn a series of dots into sounds. It's like braille plus Morse code but in a higher dimension. But what if they hear sheet music in their head as 440hz? Does that make them a Nazi?

This was so cool. Funny and informative. Really enjoyed the pronounciation of Göbbels.

I play the vibraphone in my school marching band Right on the A4, it has a little thing carved in that says "A4=420" What the fuck

Did you just prelude to a video on microtonals? Seriously Frank, bless you.

Thank you so much for this video, so much BS on this 432z tuning, stupidity will never finish to astonish me

Never even knew there was so much drama over pitch. Fascinating information with dead-pan delivery. love it

Great job dude. This was the best researched and least bull-shitty video on alternative tuning I've seen. Only one thing, all pitch is not exactly "relative." The resonant frequency of physical objects, even including the Earth's atmosphere responds to very specific frequencies naturally just by virtue of physical laws (volume(3dspace)/distance/density/temperature/wavelength/etc.) Altho it changes year by year but in human terms it can be considered almost "absolute" (not arbitrary.) And a physical object's resonant frequency isn't going to change due to a subjective opinion.

When there's too many Hertz /hɝts/ it can hurtz your ears 0:39-0:41

I'm not even a musician but I love these videos and Frank. Cool stuff to know, I guess.

Best tuning tip i get was tune always at the 5 fret.Slight out of tune at 1to4 slight out at 12 to wtf, but if you tune by o's only the first frets are in tune and all the rest is not .So better a littel here and there slight out of instead all after the 4 fret sounds detuned.

Illuminati shill confirmed lol

im so early frank pls reply ily

Nice job Frank. Really loving these history videos.

Frank, this video was amazing! I'm not really good at understanding music but I DO understand physics so that beginning part really brought it all together with the parts about frequency that I already knew! Plus learning about how politics shape music is really cool and not something you usually think about. thank u ❤️🎼

I find 432 softer, 440 gets annoying after a bit.

Top notch Frankie Sriracha

Frank, you're great man! Every time I watch one of your videos, you actually inspire me and I actually start playing with those things myself, like changing the pitch of songs or trying new styles in fl studio. Thank you very much for being so inspiring and for all those fun vids you make.

432 isn’t a Fibonacci numero

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This is SUCH a well done video, holy cow! It's obvious you did a lot of work and research on the subject. Very informative, hilarious, and well edited. Great job m8

I absolutely love your videos about music theory/history like this one. I'm a graduate student in music theory and I eat this stuff up. Keep it up, proud of you!

I love this video to death, but every mathematician cringed just a little when you pronounced mersenne as "mersennee"

9:53 there's no such thing as a 440 Hz instrument. Instruments can be tuned to any standard unless it's like xylophone or something that cannot be tuned once manufactured.

Is was NOT Adolf Hitler, who introduced 440 Hertz tuning. It was ROCKEFELLER, who did it. Rockefeller startet it at the end of the 19th century! The Rockefellers startet to spread the 440 Hz tuning forks. And Rockefeller is not german!

this was actually your best video so far

His name is Pythagoras. Not Pythagoras theorem lol.

I detune the shit out of my melodies, it's almost as if the music I make doesn't even use an existing scale

"440hz as thisthe international standard" in Jokerman font.

haha love the FU tone of this vid. "since we have to listen to people with more gold than us...." hahhaha it's true!

Hey frank in your next video you should talk about Inharmonicity and the Pythagorean comma, or why it's impossible to actually tune a piano perfectly. It's kind of mind blowing. They touch on it in a minute physics video but there's more to it. Interesting stuff.

I think, "A4 = 432 Hz tuning" makes every music performed using instruments which are used in the late 18th to early 19th century. If we perform Mozart or Chopin, it would be also good, but music after Chopin's era? Nope.

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anyone know the song at the start?

Lmfao I actually watched that Disney short in class. I silently wimhispered " V A P O R W A V E "

438 hertz is perfect to me it sounds like the brightness of 440 and the realness of 432.

2:21 basically right.

i don't know this fibonachi fellow but he's pretty aesthetic right meme boys?????/???/??

Muzika432 Tuning App at Apple iTunes and Google Play Store.....muzika432.com I must say this is one of the funniest videos I have ever watched....your pronunciation of some terms is just too funning...although I must say you did your research and your video is quite informative....you are wrong about the choice of A4 at 440 Hz to be an average and easy to calculate, it was first mentioned by Ellis in a footnote in his translation of Helmholtz' book from the original German into English, what was used was C 528 cycles per second at the time, they literally counted the cycles. So not not A 440 but C 528 which made C1 at 33 cps. Hertz came later and was actually a student of Helmholtz who was very much against Equal Temperament Tuning and blamed the piano for its popularity.....Muzika432 Tuning is a new discovery, it is the natural tuning of our world, it is Unequal, Just, mathematically sound, comes in two forms, and yes is at A 432 Hz, or C 256 Hz. I really enjoyed your video and well you are drawn to A 432 Hz because it is calming, your entire being actually resonates with it, we as humans can find C128 Hz or C 256 Hz naturally. The Baroque period and Zarlino are a good example of the human voice being able to find all those natural frequencies, notes....a short chapter in my book explains the polemic at that time in tuning. I guarantee you will love the Muzik432 Tuning App and you can then tune your guitar in perfect 4ths....if you think Equal Temperament Tuning at A 432 Hz sounds good, wait till you try Muzika432 Tuning!!! Her is the guitar tuning: its on the App by the way, the instructions are there to tune various instruments and with Muzika432 Tuning App you can tune every instrument...Guitar in Muzika432 Tuning: E4 at 324 Hz, B3 at 243 Hz, G3 at 192 Hz, D3 at 144 Hz, A2 at 108 Hz, E2 at 81 Hz.....all are perfect 4ths except G to B which is a major 3rd, and in Muzika432 Tuning the minor 3rd is perfect not the pamper 3rd in this case really too bad.....to check all the perfect 4ths multiply by 4/3 or 3/4...example E2 at 81 Hz x 4/3 = 108 which is A2 and so on....Frank do spread the word,,,,this is a great discovery, and a wonderful gift that belongs to all of us, unfortunately I do not have the money for advertising ....Cheers!!!!

actually a very good and informative video! nice1

66642069 hz is the best sounding to me, no contest

Thank you that really cleared things up for me. I started reaearching this about 4 hours ago and I didn't know what to believe anymore. But you explained this so well I was able to reconcile my intuition with a reasonable evidence based view of reality. And you reminded me of the comforting reality that chaos (or I guess maybe incompressible quantum probability foamyness) has a large role in steering reality and no human however powerful actually knows the future or what the fuck they are doing. 🎉 thank goodness existence is absurd and ridiculous. Otherwise it would be so dull and terrifying. Embrace ansurdity.

Nice piano in the background *cough* joji sampled it *cough*

Will if rich Americans and Englishmen funded the Ashkanazis....oh, did I say that? Can you say Thule/Rosicrucian/O.T.O. society?

lovely

435Hz was not arbitarily set in France in 1859.. It was a joint effort between a list of well known composers at that time,, 435Hz proved to work for a large repetoire of different operas from different countries and periods. A4=435Hz (12-TET) is the highest you can go before the passaggios for dramatic voices are shifted too high. 431Hz/432Hz is easy peasy as no early transition is needed but deeper chest notes can be a little more difficult to project.. 435Hz lift these chest notes up without the middle register pushing to far towards the head register.. 435Hz has a nice balance. This is also the pitch for Beatles first two albums.. A secret known by serious Beatles tribute bands.. "ticket to ride" do not sound right until you tune your A4 to 435Hz.. I find A4=430Hz too flat for contemporary music,, Vocal expression is very relaxed at A4=430Hz and not a good fit for poppy tunes like whitneys Houstons "i wanna dance with somebody",, A4=435Hz has a little lift and still sound exited without the "over the top" 440Hz pitch. The highest pitch which to my knowledge Verdi tolerated was 437Hz for his otello. This is also the amount of detuning i need to get a more easy balance of the notes in our scale in my vocal tract. And pretty much the amount of flatness (10-12 cents) .I experience on flat singers... Though since 435Hz was a former standard in Europe I would recommend to lower the modern standard to this pitch for A4.

Why are harmonicas 443 to 444?. It drives me crazy when I hear a guitar tuned 440 playing a harmonica. Great channel!

Hey you omitted the huge influence the Rockefeller Foundation had on creating the modern 440 standard.

Frequency isn't subjective when it's used as a destructive wave weapon. Sound frequency has a direct effect on our physiology. It matters more than you think. This is all proven through modern electro physics. Looking for laughs is all fun but don't get it f*cked up, 440hz is a weapon homie.

all these As and Cs and shit, give me the do re mi fa sol

Qustion.All volume and tune pots are B500k on my ibanez.What happens if i would change this?What would do this? I wired a humbzcker without pots direct. Sounds really great for high gain but thats it. No vol. or tone change possible.

This is exactly my kind of educational video. Memes and dragonforce!

great ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ video,can you make the next history video about the "amen break" ?

You're so smart man, thanks for making this explanation simple for people.

man i wish i have a bestfriend like Frank

I read the description Frank. Then my Awakenings rip with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro finished buffering so I haven't watched this yet. But I used to date a cellist and she changed her cello to 432 and said it made her happier. She was bisexul and prolly my soul mate but it so seldom works out. I mean she didn't like dubstep at ALL so what's a boy to do???

Maybe as we come to higher awareness as a species our internal 'processor' will process at a higher hz.... Meaning the americans of the new world found the new A for the new age, and it's a positive thing, not a negative:)

FRANK! HOT DAD SHOWED ME YOUR GREATNESS! I OBLIGED AND SUBSCRIBED! WEB LOVE!

No mention of 442 Hz? A good number of orchestras, mostly in Europe, stick to that tuning.

Been a while since a good tutorial appeared, and I wish to see one on Frenchcore, or Hardbass (A NU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE)

This video is simply amazing, 100% quality for real.

I like the Gymnopedie in your educational bits! I remember hearing about something like the start on Coast to Coast AM. Also, for your next tutorial, can you do a Baltimore/Philly/Jersey Club one?

modern "historical" baroque tuning aka people who play baroque music on baroque style instruments have pretty much standardized it at A414. some soloists play lower or higher but groups and orchastras doing the period performance usually play about A414.

absolutely love the videos man, keep it up

Also, fun fact, strings and percussion instruments do get flat in the heat and sharp in the cold (because temperature affects tension), but wind instruments actually get sharp in heat and flat in cold because of how excitable the air molecules are

Love that, made me laugh and taught me stuff. There's an absolutely amazing, and i say that cos its free and it seems to work, really well. It called 432 player, it just takes your music stored on your phone and plays it at 432hz, which from what i understand is the most perfect frequency geometrically, so its perfectly in focus and resonates completely in sync to my frequency, whatever the fuck that is. I've not been in a better mood for 25 years, i just feel sharper and lighter. listening to it at 440hz was like looking at a beautiful picture through someone elses glasses.

you'd better learn languages. f.e. Joseph Goebbels (Say: Gebels - without speaking in English, forget about it, let's Say the real voice of this letters.)

this was by far the funniest education video i have ever seen. Lmao great work dude!!! Love your super weirdo humor!

Really Cool, now have everything tuned to 432Hz. Sounds really nice.

512 comments. Not any more. Down with 512. Thank you so much for doing this video. This has been fascinating me for a while and I could not get to the bottom of it. Keep it up; this and the colors video were both longtime itches that you scratched masterfully.

Frank video on my birthday, excellent. Very cool topic and I learned about it.

There is a little mistake in this doh (those plates can be tuned to any hertz.. yet i love that fact that u at least made a more lengthy vid on it. And i didn't know it where the 1920 music fabricants.. wowz cheers i love 432 too btw.. i mouth harp so.. they are tuned even lower, more close to 420 lolz; never the less we use mouth cavity and most of the sound comes from there anywayz.. and i've been built by fibonacci sequences :p ;)

Brilliant video! Very funny. Sick of those who look at everything religiously and unscientifically.