Testing 432 Hz Frequencies (and temperaments)

now let me tell you all about the music you listen to regularly, it plays at bad

frequencies

, look it up on youtube bro, look it up right now, when you're done with this video, so you can compare 432 versus 440 I just detuned my piano about 32 cents, it's the difference between 14 and 40 Hertz in Fortune 32 Hertz, this is what all the applications that claim to convert your music to 432 Hertz do, they simply tune it according to that factor. 432 Hertz applications. You could play all your music and everything through this app, the important thing is that it doesn't change the temperament.

The distance between each of these notes on the scale remains exactly the same as in 440. We use a twelve-tone equal temperament system. that doesn't bother me but the big reason people keep talking about 432 is because of its frequency ratios, it plays through bad

frequencies

, if we just keep the same tantrum rhythm on 432 we won't get these better frequencies , so what am I doing? What I'm going to do is reach all over my piano for these best frequencies, whatever they are, there is a problem, although there are many different sources online that give different values, so we'll try a couple of them, the first source we're going to check .

It's a documentary called sonic and geometry, the language of frequency and shape, which has almost 2 million views on YouTube, let's watch it. The tuning method required to reveal geometric shapes is based on a mathematical grid rather than mathematical proportions. This grid if it had a name it would probably be called something like 9 factor because the number 9 is found not only in the sum of each note in the grid but also as the number required to go up or down the scale. Okay, great, we have our table, so I'm going to use the software called piano tech, which is super powerful, it allows me to tune very specific frequencies, first we'll go to 432 Hertz of course, then we'll go to advanced tuning, select and we we'll make sure it's right there, select frequencies and then boom, we have 432 hertz at the top.

Now we can write whatever we want for the rest of the notes, so instead of four hundred seven point eight hertz, ooh, that's bad math. We're going to find that Oh A flat should be 414 Hertz much better. Now you can notice in this graph that here there are G sharp and flat, which are not harmonics, they are the same in our equal temperament system. We're just going to find Ignore that for now and move on to find out what G is supposed to be, it's supposed to be 378 Hertz type that bad boy at F sharp 360 F is 342 e is 324 d sharp is 306 D is 288 C sharp is 270 C is 252 B is 234 and a sharp is 225, so now that we've reset this factor 9 grid, let's hear how the music sounds with it.

Check it out. It didn't sound as harmonious to me as if it were a greater expression of musical truth. that beauty in the universe to me that sounded pretty daring, I say out of tune you play through bad frequencies well it turns out that the way musicians play their instruments and tune their instruments has less to do with specific frequencies and much more to do with The relationships between those frequencies What we have discovered is that our ears generally like simple relationships between two frequencies, the frequency number simply does not matter to musicians, it is that ratio that matters, currently we use a twelve tone system of equal temperament to tune our musical instruments that not only do a good job of approximating these proportions, but they also do a good job of approximating them in literally every possible key, which means that our current system is very, very versatile, we can use it to play basically any style of music.

The same can't really be said for this whole 432 factor 9 system, it's a fair intonation system that can only be played in the key of a if it's going to sound in tune and even then we have to be very aware of the exact proportions. that we're using anyway, we can find the ratios between all of these numbers right here by going into piano technology and clicking on the sensor ratio and then we have our newly entered ratios so we can run through a couple of them, they're going to sound really good. the relationship from a to c sharp that major third is a relationship of five to four some of these relationships are really strange, although like 13 to 12, I don't actually know what that's called, wait a second, yeah.

There is a website that is a list of all the interval names in English and you get the basic ones like major third in perfect fifth, all the classic ones, but then 13 versus 12 is the 2/3 decimal tri tone, that sounds very strange and out of place. 23 vs 12 that's another strange one 23 vs 12 again that's la vie scimitar advises my scimitar shil major 7th hmm that's strange, you got a couple more strange wins here with 7 vs 4 which is the harmonic 7 which sounds pretty cool, so I'm going to improvise a little bit in the key of a so you can hear how the system works and see if you like it.

I don't know, maybe that's okay with you, so some of that sounded a little strange, but some of it didn't to me. It doesn't sound that bad, it's actually very limiting, although if the goal of music is to express thoughts and feelings, the thoughts and feelings that this particular temperament and tuning system has to express are, in my opinion, quite limited, so Let's look for another that isn't. the only one that exists, so this chart has chakra frequencies and then their correlations has all the different notes, not everything on the chromatic scale, but we'll do everything we can and then their corresponding chakras.

I don't really know much about chakras, but we'll play those frequencies on the piano and see what kind of music we can make with them. Well, we wrote these bad boys. This is what they sound like. Well, dare we improvise some music? Let's improvise something, so maybe we're targeting too many chakras. at the same time, it was certainly much worse than the last ones, it played at bad frequencies. If we check the ratios between these frequencies, we find some quite strange ones, like the distance between A and C sharp is 23 to 18, which is the Vice scimitar shil major third.

This chakra attunement also does not contain a perfect fifth, which is really strange, the ratio of three to two in all cultures in basically all of human civilization has included attunement

temperaments

that have at least a perfect fifth and this is not the closest it has is a ratio of 13 to 9, which is a diminished fifth decimal, so clearly with this chakra tuning these numbers are not really designed for a tuning system for musical instruments according to this table, musical tuning doesn't quite do it anyway. align with our chakras and if we tried to align it with the chakras like we just did, it would sound very strange musically, it plays with bad words, let's look at one more option with 432 temperament, this is a Pythagorean tuning or at least one Supposedly, if you take the resonance Schumann, which is supposed to be the Earth's resonance around eight Hertz, you can calculate a 432 using Pythagorean tuning.

This is a graph that has it in a nice Pythagorean tuning based on the Schumann resonance, so let's just write. that on piano tech 432 384 we're doubling a lot of these because it only has the white keys so we'll just worry about those 384 ok now my keyboard has a nice Pythagorean tuning with all these nice even numbers not these decimal points with tuning modern standard yes, this is the good thing, let's listen to it well, then there is clearly something wrong here, what's wrong? Well, it turns out that these are not the frequencies of the Pythagorean tuning, there is a little deception afoot.

Here normally to get Pythagorean intervals what you would do is multiply C, for example, in 256 by 3 over 2, the proportion of a perfect fifth and, in fact, you would get G equal to 384, that is good mathematics, however, for To get the frequency of F, which is a perfect fifth down from C, you would reverse the multiplication, so instead of multiplying by 3 over 2, you would multiply it by 2 over 3, so C 256 times 2 over 3 is 170 point 6 repeating yes, that number does not look good, it is like every decimal point e this number of F 176 looks a little better because there is no decimal point even though the proportion of 170 point 6 repeated is related to C through a relationship simplest, in this case f is related to C by the relationship of 11 to 8 11 8 was not a Pythagorean proportion, it was simply chosen because the numbers look better, not because the music they make sounds better is played through bad frequencies in piano technology, we can actually select the Pythagorean temperament with 432 and some of the numbers.

It doesn't look right, but they are Pythagorean in conception, okay, so there's a weird chord there, but for the most part it sounded good, it seemed doable, we don't really use Pythagorean tuning much anymore because it's not the best for harmony a lot of thirds don't end up sounding very in tune, instead we generally use twelve tone equal temperament because it's much more versatile musically, so if you like 4:32 I hope this video made you think a little. More about what you read online in terms of frequency. Pretty much everything I've seen has nothing to do with actual music, it's just trying to make the numbers look a certain way.

Musicians from all cultures have been working on tuning problems. and temperament for literally thousands of years and all the discussion I've read online so far about 432 has completely ignored that body of work, instead we get this really strange numerology that has no basis in actual music creation, as you heard in Listen to this video. I know there's a feeling that things are deeply wrong right now, and it might be nice to try to justify that feeling by saying: What if we were tuning music incorrectly all this time? Music affects us in our bodies in a very deep and significant way, so if we tune the music incorrectly it would affect us negatively.

I understand that sentiment, and honestly, if you like the sound of equal temperament on a 430 or better than a 440 with more power, there are a lot of reasons why that might sound. warmer and darker, you might be able to sing at 432 a little better, but once you try to justify this with frequencies, numbers and pseudoscience, then there is some arrogance involved because many people will say that these are the frequencies we should be at . use without trying to make music using those frequencies in the first place, as you heard in this video, those frequencies can sound quite chaotic and quite spicy, it may not be the kind of emotional situation that people who like 4:32 are looking for.

Sometimes I like it, but there is that disconnect, so if you like any of this, try making music with it first before saying these are the frequencies you should, if we wake up in the morning, you hear your favorite song out of nowhere . you start to fill with anxiety depressed it's not the song the foot is not that far away there is nothing wrong with the frequency that is in the plan so our only chance is to look for 432 HZ vs. 432