# Why should I Listen to 432hz Music?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-i-listen-to-432hz-music/677787>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 3, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-i-listen-to-432hz-music/677787 "2014-01-03T12:29:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-i-listen-to-432hz-music/677787/101 "2015-02-16T20:45:54Z")

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I for one welcome our 8 hz lower overlords.

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**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-i-listen-to-432hz-music/677787/102 "2015-02-16T20:48:05Z")

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Where’s that [mosh-pit smiley](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v189/morguetrip/moshpit.gif) when you need him?

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**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-i-listen-to-432hz-music/677787/103 "2015-02-16T21:35:30Z")

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Priceless mallet instruments from the early 1900s trump bullshit esoteric attitudes about tuning. A=440, because I’m not retuning a work of art just to please the whims of the mentally-ill.

I say that with love for all my crazies out there. LOL

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**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-i-listen-to-432hz-music/677787/104 "2015-02-17T01:51:07Z")

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Plus, it would be very expensive to retune all the organs in concert halls all over the place.

There’s a recording of the Philadelphia Orchestra under (I think) Stokowski doing Also Sprach Zarathustra, where the organ is like a quarter-step flatter than the orchestra. I think that was actually with the orchestra at 440, since the recording must have been from the 40s or 50s. I don’t know what that organ was tuned at, but it must not have been 440. That’s actually a situation where A=432 would help, but most concert hall organs are at 440, I believe, at least in the US.

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**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-i-listen-to-432hz-music/677787/105 "2015-02-17T01:55:34Z")

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Never mind, I looked it up, it was with Ormandy in 1964. I don’t know where they recorded it, with such a flat-tuned organ, though.

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