kitarist -> RE: A-440 vs 432 Hz?? (Sep. 27 2020 1:48:24)
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I understand it didn't used to be A440 as a standard, I also understand that the Nazi party was pushing to standardized A440 before it became standard, from what I remember reading they had nothing to do with the ultimate decision which came years later...... This A=440 due to Nazis idea has come up several times; it turns out to be false. As I was looking for historical papers for another thread, I accidentally came across information which definitively debunks it: The first time A=440 was proposed and accepted as a standard was in 1834, at a conference of physicists in Stuttgart. The proposal was by Johann Scheibler, "a silk manufacturer from Crefeld, Prussia, [..] who went on to make contributions to the science of acoustics as a self taught musicologist". He also had devised a very accurate 'tonometer' with which to reliably measure pitches. Scheibler's value of A=440, "The Stuttgart pitch", was the mean of the measurements of grand pianofortes in Vienna. For various reasons (later rival standards adopted by different countries, e.g. the French 'normale' of A=435 adopted in 1859 which in reality turns out to have been A=439; etc.), this did not fully take internationally until 1939. In 1938 the Brits called for an international conference to debate and adopt a world-wide uniform standard. For that purpose they convened said international conference in 1939. On May 11-12, 1939, that conference was held at the BBC in London, chaired by the British Standards Institution under the auspices of the International Standards Association, with in-person attendance by France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland and Italy, and stated views by Switzerland and the United States of America. In addition, some independent international associations attended or sent their proposals. The initial views were as follows: After a "friendly and vigorous discussion followed, during which it was happily found possible to establish eventual agreement on the main points at issue", the value of A=440 Hz was adopted.
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