TUNE DOWN

...LESSON 1 - tuning...

...let's start with basics, get that A string tuned, tune it up, up, tune it right up to that amerikan standard 440hz, then...
...tune it down again 'cos that's way too high, tune it down about half a tone an' you got it, now you're in tune with mozart an' with jimi, now your in tune with ernst chladni, and nature, and j s bach, and divine symmetry...

In fact, A=440 has never been the international standard pitch, and the first international conference to impose A=440, which failed, was organized by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in 1939. Throughout the seventeeth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, and in fact into the 1940s, all standard U.S. and European text books on physics, sound, and music took as a given the "physical pitch'' or "scientific pitch'' of C=256. schiller institute

...for homework, play that A string whilst pondering the nature of the OM...