I for one welcome our 8 hz lower overlords.
Where’s that mosh-pit smiley when you need him?
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
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.
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.