glassjaw7
Well-known member
Smart-assery aside, some good points made above...but yeah, still saying that lower tunings such as full steps down, blah blah blah, are 440hz. Just like in a full orchestra. Take a baritone playing a low B or whatever. It's still 440 tuning, although it's much lower than the open B string of a guitar in standard tuning. On a 7 string guitar, you still tune the low B to 440 standard. That's what I'm pointing out. Take a guitar tuner and tune to 'standard' at 432hz and then try to play along with a song in A440 Standard tuning, and you'll see what I mean. It's not a half-step or a full step off, but somewhere in between.
Reminds me of being a teenager and trying to jam with Cowboys From Hell.
That tuning was just a little off and it always sounded strange, but cool.
As far as comparing the two frequencies, I've played with it a bit and this is what I experienced: You know those standing waves of a guitar's string vibrations? When you're slightly out of tune, you can feel or hear the slight warbly vibrations and it stops when you get perfectly in tune? In 440 standard, those waves always seem to be there like something going against the grain. In 432, chords don't seem to have this effect as much and everything sounds a bit more calm and natural to my ears. Call me crazy.
Reminds me of being a teenager and trying to jam with Cowboys From Hell.
That tuning was just a little off and it always sounded strange, but cool. As far as comparing the two frequencies, I've played with it a bit and this is what I experienced: You know those standing waves of a guitar's string vibrations? When you're slightly out of tune, you can feel or hear the slight warbly vibrations and it stops when you get perfectly in tune? In 440 standard, those waves always seem to be there like something going against the grain. In 432, chords don't seem to have this effect as much and everything sounds a bit more calm and natural to my ears. Call me crazy.
