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There was a time when people tuned their instruments differently than we do today. Before electronics, people relied on the feeling of intonation, and the gift of perfect pitch. Early music was written to be performed in a tuning (intervals of cycles per second known as Hertz) which was different than the standard pitch we know today.
In 1939 the standard was re-defined as A=440 hz. This was an increase in the frequency, or cycles per second (Hz) of the A note reference by 8 Hz, up from 432. In France alone, there were 12,000 musicians on record in opposition to this adjustment.
With the aid of electronics, we can accurately identify what an instrument’s vibration rate is, and adjust most by tuning them to match a desired frequency. Thus the ritual of the orchestra tuning before the concert begins.
But how was the A= 432 standard in use before known and loved by musicians?
It appears that like all things that vibrate, a resonance that is harmonic with perfect numbers is more pleasing to our ears, and our bodies. And why not? Like a number system based in 12 versus 10, there are more perfect divisions without fractions occurring in the 432 based system than 440. It translates into a tangible, physical, sense of wellness, wholeness, and healing through sound waves; sound moves into, through, and within our bodies as whole, perfect numbers.
Rather than a lost relic, you can still enjoy this ancient tuning’s subtle shift of consciousness today, and its gifts as a healing modality.
My shakuhachi is tuned to 432 hz.
Even if math is not your strong suit, listen sometime and decide for yourself if this tuning is more satisfying to your ears, and your heart. Perhaps it will reach you in ways that our ancestors knew before the advent of 440 hz. The Masters composed for it. This is the sound of the Mass sung by a choir in a great cathedral, a resounding manifestation of the language and form of sacred geometry in space and sound and spirit.
Feel yourself informed, aligned, and resplendent with sound.
Resonate!
Please take a moment to read the following from the street philosopher, it explains more accurately than I can here:
http://thestreetphilosopher.tumblr.com/post/15553189702/the-importance-of-a-432hz-as-a-concert-pitch-for-music
When did the concert pitch change?
Most music worldwide has been tuned to 440 hertz since the International Standards Organization (ISO) endorsed it in 1953, following the prior recommendations of the Nazi party spoksman, Joseph Goebbels in 1939. Suffice to say, I will not waste good energy down the rabbit hole of conspiracy to expose another Illuminatti agenda, however I will quickly state that there was an organised effort to change Concert pitch to 440hz well back at the start of the last century to codify an “Old World New Order” of central pitch.
440hz was pushed by J. C. Deagan, A US NAVY man and disciple of the acoustics physicist Hermann Helmholtz, who published “the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music” (1862). In 1910 J. C. Deagan persuaded the American Federation of Musicians, at its annual convention, to adopt A=440 as the standard universal pitch for orchestras and bands.
Deagan was well connected in many elite society circles and was a charter member of the American Federation of Musicians, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, American Acoustical Society and a member of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
He was deeply interested in astronomy, geology, chemistry, and all branches of physics, particularly the theories of light and sound and he was considered an authority on pitch and acoustics. Deagan designed the 440hz Wartime chime that was used for propaganda news reals in world war two and it is still used everyday as the call sign of the NBC chimes.
Despite the petitions of over twelve thousand musicians in France, the ISO codified concert pitch globally by 1955. The Schiller Institute campaign for a change in concert pitch from A=440hz back to A=432hz is based that 432hz is deeply connected with nature, and the vocal chords of singers will not be damaged by higher ranges when centered at concert pitch A=432hz.
The recent rediscoveries of the vibratory/oscillatory nature of the universe indicates that current contemporary A=440hz international concert pitch standard may possibly generate an unhealthy effect or anti-social behavior in the consciousness of human beings.
A=440hz as a standard for concert pitch possibly may bring an unnatural 8 Hz dissonant change in how we think. DNA oscillates to protect itself from the environment, and stress from dissonant interferance patterns of mechanical and electromagnetic waves may possibly effect the abilities of DNA to regulate our genetic makeup properly. Our inner ear for example works on the basis of Phi dampening. The waters of our inner ears rely on Fibonacci spiral dampening through the seashell like structure of the cochlea, to keep us feeling centered or grounded. This Fibonacci spiral shape helps cancel out certain standing wave interference patterns, like a Helmholtz resonator, in order to keep us properly balanced with the natural environment around us. When the inner ear is in stress by artificial means, we can experience a type of “fog -like” condition or feel “spaced out”. The natural Phi shape of the cochlea can be found planet wide in the majority of natural organic-based life.
A measured phenomenon that supports the idea of using A=432hz as a concert pitch is based on the amount of musical partials of A=432hz that is intertwined in organic systems and the time of planetary movement; the Sun and Saturn for example. Saturn is the solar system’s accurate time piece and it orbits the procession every 864 years (432 x 2). The harmonic overtone partials of A=432hz appear to line up to natural patterns and nodal space resonance of scalar waves.
Truly all frequencies affect DNA and consciousness, as we are in a musical universal medium of dimension through the illusion of motion of frequency, which affects awareness. If you change frequency you can change the perception of dimension.
As far as concert pitch goes, the farther up you go from “C” prime pitch C=128hz (Concert A=432hz) then the farther you can possibly distort the natural electric potential that imprints memory on the water in your cells. This is perhaps why A=440Hz and higher concert pitches can be experienced as brighter, thinner, up and to the side of the head, whereas concert pitch at A=432hz can be experienced in the body at the spine and heart.
Administered under proper professional cranial sacral therapy, some people experience vivid dreams and lucid experiences of spiritual connection, once the electrical potential of the sphenoid bone begins to regulate the cranial and spinal fluid in resonance from music tuned to A=432hz . Audiophiles have also reported that A=432hz music seems to be non-local and can appear to fill a room, whereas A=440hz can be perceived as directional or linear in sound propagation.
Maria Renold’s book Intervals Scales tones and the concert Pitch C=128hz claims conclusive evidence that 440Hz and raising concert pitch above “C” Prime=128hz (Concert A=432hz) disassociates the connection of consciousness to the body and creates anti-social conditions in human beings.
Raising concert pitch even higher than A=440hz can cause stress or warping of acoustic instruments, and may seriously damage a singer’s vocal chords, according to some professional opera singers. If we examine the 20th century mass-consciousness and the use of A=440hz as possible mind control in mass media, pushed through media & television as the “British Invasion” of Rock & Roll, we see the potential anti social behaviors and possible dangers of using higher and higher pitches as central references for music.
This information was well known over a hundred years ago and Rudolf Steiner warned mankind that using “Luciferic Brightness and Arhimanic tones in music could bring a condensing of the satanic greed forces in the west instead of “C” Prime=128hz (Concert A=432hz), which he mentioned was “Christ” consciousness of ascendant energy, and Angel “Michael” Sun -tone energy in the collective awareness in the evolution of man.
Unfortunately most western music, including popular new age healing music, is still tuned at the unnatural equal temperment concert pitch A=440hz tuning. The difference between concert pitch A=440hz and Concert A=432hz is only 8 cycles per second, but it is a perceptible difference of awareness in the human consciousness experience of the dream we call reality.
The Geometry of 432hz Frequency
We wondered what the geometry of 432hz would look like using Cymatics, so I contacted John Stuart Reid, the co-designer of the CymaScope™ , regarding his wonderful invention and the geometry of the A=432hz tone.
Here is a transcript of John’s correspondence with Brian T’ Collins:
“Hello Brian, 432 Hertz pops out as a triangle, every time we image it. We thought there was something wrong with the CymaScope™ but after trying for more than an hour we concluded that the number 3 was somehow universally connected to 432 Hertz.”
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“We captured it on video as well and it looks like it’s alive; it writhes and pulsates, and refuses to take up any other form. We researched the reason why it takes up this geometry and it turns out to be an interesting case:
When A is tuned to 432Hz the frequencies of the other A’s shift (within a decimal point) to 27 Hz, 54, 108, 216, 864, 1728 in other octaves. D becomes 576 Hz which becomes 9 Hz, 18, 36, 72, 144, 288, 1152 in other octaves. E becomes 324 Hz which becomes 81 Hz, 162, 648, 1296 in other octaves. All of these frequencies are divisible by 3…
Regards, John Stuart Reid.”
John had confirmed with his incredible invention the CymaScope™, what seems to be a scientific interpretation of what Rudolph Steiner in his esoteric knowledge of the Mysteries of Golgotha and cosmic principals stated–
That a prime center of tone for living enlightenment in mankind is a C=128hz note with the octave at C=256hz (within 432hz Concert pitch) or Michael Sun tone A=432hz which ties the spiritual tetra or trinity of spherical scalar wave patterns and evolution of man ascendant together in sound and geometry of the super hologram of consciousness.
The medium of 432hz is certain evidence of Divine intelligent design of the universe and light. A 53 note temperament scale based on A=432hz pitch goes less than 1 hertz difference out of harmonic synchronicity over the entire 53 note scale, most other pitches are out of sync after only two or three notes up the octave. An excited engineer confirmed that scales tuned to A=432hz is surely the fingerprint evidence of a intelligent divine creator.
A new quote regarding the amazing properties of 432 from John Stuart Reid’s Facebook page states:
“432Hertz is a harmonic of light frequency. It ‘speaks’ or resonates directly with our cells. All cells communicate with each other via infrared light, so I imagine that when they receive music in 432 Hertz they are in joy. The conscious mind may not be aware of this, but most of what goes on in our bodies is subconscious. You can read more about how all sounds create infra red light in the physics section of our web site CymaScope™ “
“432 Hertz truly can be considered a harmonic of light. Sound in air may be defined as the transfer …of periodic movements between adjacent colliding atoms or molecules. This sonic energy typically expands away from the site of the collisions—at the local speed of sound—as a spherical or bubble-shaped emanation, the surface of which is in a state of radial oscillation. At the point of origin of the sonic bubble, an electromagnetic bubble is created by the collisions between the air molecules, because each collision creates friction that releases a small amount of infrared electromagnetism.
That magnetism, like the sonic bubble, expands away from source spherically and it is modulated by the sonic periodicities, in much the same way that an amplitude-modulated radio broadcast consists of an electromagnetic carrier that is modulated in amplitude by, say, a person’s voice frequencies. Thus, the relationship between sound and light is real and very much part of the way that nature works. We cannot talk about the 432 Hertz key note without visualizing a 432 Hertz-modulated infrared light bubble” Regards-John
