Hello Everybody,

I found an old tuning fork the other day, and even though it looks just
like a modern tuning fork, the tone is slightly different.  Tuning forks
are used to tune pianos.  A tuning fork gives the tone of an A, to be
precise, an A4 in pianospeak.  The frequency modern tuning forks give is
that of 440 Hz.  Once A4 is properly in tune, the rest of the keys of a
piano can easily be tuned.  But the old tuning fork is tuned not to the
frequency of 440 Hz, but to that of 422.5 Hz.

For those who are lost, an A4 is the A above middle C on a piano.
Modern piano tunings use 440 Hz as the tone of A4 on a piano.

At first, I thought that perhaps it was a defective tuning fork.
Especially since the sound of the old tuning fork did not match the
sound of the A4 on my piano, while the modern tuning fork did.

So I went to the library and listened to some old recordings.  I
compared the sound the old tuning fork made with notes that I knew
were A4.  Libraries are wonderful, having both music scores and
recordings.  I also compared the sound the modern tuning fork made
with those notes.  I made further comparisons with modern recordings.
And sure enough, neither tuning fork was defective.

The old tuning fork matched up with old recordings, but not with modern
recordings.  The modern tuning fork matched up with modern recordings,
but not with old recordings.

Those findings confirm the truth.  The music we listen to today is all
screwed up.  Bach is not Bach, and Beethoven is not Beethoven.  Mozart
is no longer Mozart, and Chopin is long gone.

Try playing Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" on a piano (with A4 tuned to 440
Hz), in the key that it was written in.  Now transpose the music one
half-step down and play it again.  Notice the difference.  Do the same
with Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony".  Especially noting the four famous
notes, ta ta ta dum.

The modern tuning of Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" suggests that
Beethoven got the idea of his four famous notes from a songbird.
But when playing those same four notes one half-step down, one
quickly realizes that it was no songbird that Beethoven got his
idea from.

But transposing music down one half-step does not really give one the
full effect of what the original composers had in mind.  For justice to
be done, one has to tune a piano to A4 as being 422.5 Hz, as pianos were
tuned in the days of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, etc.

There is a reason why 422.5 Hz was used as the tone for A4.  And
it is a very sound reason, based on simple mathematics.  But it was
changed to 440 Hz, apparently just prior to WWII.

I found the reason by listening to songs recorded during WWII.
All of the songs recorded in America and Britain used the 440 Hz
tuning.  But songs recorded in Germany used the 422.5 Hz tuning.
At first, I thought that was merely a coincidence.  But all of
the songs recorded after WWII in Germany used the 440 Hz tuning.

I knew then that the music world was taken in by a group of conspirators
who travelled back in time in order to change our future.  I mean, there
just is no other logical explanation...

--Lee


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