.....to the theory that 432 Hz is the natural "musical pitch" and gives more clarity than the standard 440 Hz?
 

None whatsoever.

Mesh
.....to the theory that 432 Hz is the fundamental or harmonic of the Am bazz note?
 

YezzIzay.

Mesh
.....to the theory that 432 Hz is the natural "musical pitch" and gives more clarity than the standard 440 Hz?
 

My theory is that some people's brains don't have the throughput to function properly above a certain pitch.

https://ask.audio/article...ting-fact-from-fiction

Yes, it's true.  Unfortunately only a very rare species of Lemur can tell the difference in the key of Am

As a guitar player, I can tell you that I used to spend a lot of time re-tuning to learn songs off records. Sometimes the tuning changed from song to song on the same album - which is why I never got used to using a tuner.
 
Unless brass or keys were involved, the tuning on many rock albums used to be anything but standard 440. And of course, some musicians voluntarily strayed from 440 for entire records (Black Sabbath Volume 4 comes to mind). Stevie Ray Vaughan and many other guitarists favoured tuning down a half step too.
 
As such, I personally never paid much attention to tuning up to standard until recent years. In fact, I've be re-working an old song for which my guitar was tuned extremely low (2 tones down IIRC). That particular song has piano in it, but it makes no differences so long as you are spot on on whichever note you decide to tune to.

Rain
Stevie Ray Vaughan and many other guitarists favoured tuning down a half step too.
 
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There was a story I read about one song by SRV and it was about a song they were ready to play, but the bass player was half a key off ... no problem ... we got us a new song!
 
Always thought that was pretty cool. You adjust to the sound of it, and it is playable regardless. I always think that is more what music is about than anything else ... you learn to listen and play to what you hear, which, of course, is a part of the history of rock music, except the ones that are afraid to improvise and learn something new! Sad to see a lot of those times gone, but they will come back ... mark my worms on that one!

+1 Rain.......I also (solely) manually tuned when learning off records/tapes. I also never had any kind of tuner(s) other than my ears (just guitar, amp, and stomp boxes). VH being my favorite band, I never understood why they almost always tuned down a 1/2 step (I just brushed it off as that's DLR's comfort zone)......now it makes a bit more sense.
 
Even though I use a digital tuner now, I have to always confirm it with my trusty ears......something about that E chord with distortion on it that just hits the right spot.
 
 
Wouldn't be surprised if all these 432 Hz fanboys are constantly singing: What's the frequency, Kenneth?
 
 
 

Hi,
 
It's just weird and strange ... we're into the technology of it all, and in the end, we think that the technology has to be right and not the ear, and its comfort level in playing something. If it feels better tuned differently, who gives a dam about the technology, and this is where music is going wrong today ... there is no "feel" ... it all has to be "perfect" ... and we need to break that up some more, and stop listening to the DAW's and whatever technology that supposedly makes this or that ... perfect ... that is just crap.
 
Perfection is in the ear, not in the DAW or the notes and staff itself, unless you still believe Mozart and Beethoven are GOD and the rest is crap!