[NewMusic] Want World Peace? Tune Your Damn Guitar!

[Matt Davignon]

Ooh - good idea, let's get on that so we can get back to the level of
peace and harmony we had in the middle ages!

On 8/20/07, Tom Duff <td at pixar.com> wrote:
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> By David B. Moye on 16 August, 2007 10:17:00
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> http://thenaughtyamerican.com/News/131.html
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> SANDPOINT, Idaho (TNA) -- The solution to world peace may be as simple as
> tuning your guitar... or piano.
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> At least that's the theory of Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a dentist in
> Sandpoint, Idaho, who is convinced that out-of-tune musical instruments
> are destroying DNA.
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> Horowitz says that ever since the Middle Ages, musical instruments have
> been tuned to a slightly different cycle than they should be. For
> instance, a "Middle C" is tuned to 523 cycles per second when it should be
> set at 528 cycles per second.
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> Tom Duff.  Clanking replicator with screwdriver.
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