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

[Cypod]

I always thought pitch was measured in Hurtz:

The conversion between Hz and rad/s is rad/s = 1 Hz × 2 [image: \pi \,] ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz


On 8/20/07, Matt Davignon <mattdavignon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > By David B. Moye on 16 August, 2007 10:17:00
> >
> > http://thenaughtyamerican.com/News/131.html
> >
> > SANDPOINT, Idaho (TNA) -- The solution to world peace may be as simple
> as
> > tuning your guitar... or piano.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ...
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tom Duff.  Clanking replicator with screwdriver.
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