3/4 of a half step is a huge shift, not relatively little.
Note that if a station wanted to make a song play faster but not change the pitch (to achieve a brighter sound) at all, they could do that too.
Nah, to me that’s relatively little. It’s not even a full semitone. Since I don’t have perfect pitch, I sure as shit can’t tell the difference unless I have other cues to go by (in this case, I think it was mostly the timbre of Sting’s voice and the slight rushed feeling.) If you gave me a piano and it was in tune with itself, but a half step sharp or flat, I don’t think I’d be able to tell the difference. I mean, I know I wouldn’t be able to, because I’ve played on keyboards where I left the keyboard transposed a full step and didn’t realize it until days later. And I’ve played piano my whole life (since 8). And when I play guitar, sometimes it’s tuned to E, sometimes to E flat. If I forget, I need to check a reference note, because I can’t tell on its own which it’s tuned to.
432hz!
(bleh)
No idea. I’ll try and ask them.
Yeeeeeees, boy did that ring some faint memory from the 70s. I can’t remember the album, but I definitely remember being annoyed about it.