The great 440 Hz conspiracy, and why all our music is ‘wrong’

Gather ’round, kids. Those of you with tinfoil hats may wish to ensure that they’re fitted snuggly. What I’m about to tell you will shake your faith in all the music you’ve heard in your life

If you look down the right paths, it becomes clear that governments and various security apparatuses have used music to control us using music.

All the music of the West that’s based on the standard 12-tone scale is used for the management of crowds as well as thought control.

Let’s begin with some music theory.

If musical performances were to sound the same the world over, some standardization was required. As early as 1885, the Music Commission of the Italian Government declared that all instruments and orchestras should use a tuning fork that vibrated at 440 Hz, which was different from the original standard of 435 Hz and the competing 432 Hz used in France.

In 1917, the American Federation of Musicians endorsed the Italians, followed by a further push for 440 Hz in the 1940s.

In 1953, a worldwide agreement was signed. Signatories declared that middle “A” on the piano be forevermore tuned to exactly 440 Hz. This frequency became the standard ISO-16 reference for tuning all musical instruments based on the chromatic scale, the one most often used for music in the West.

All the other notes are tuned in standard mathematical ratios leading to and from 440 Hz.

This tone standard is now universally accepted, which is why a piano in Toronto sounds exactly the same as a piano in China.

Weirdly, no one can say for sure why this frequency was chosen in the first place. In fact, there are those among us who vehemently disagree with this standard. In fact, they consider the 440 Hz middle “A” to be an abomination against nature.

Adherents to this theory claim that a more “natural” frequency for middle “A” is 438 Hz. Others believe that the correct middle “A” is 432 Hz (also known as Verdi’s A) because it has “a pure tone of math fundamental to nature” and is “mathematically consistent with the patterns of the universe, vibrating with Phi, the Golden Ratio.

They point to how this pitch can be connected to everything from nautilus shells to the works of the ancients, including the construction of the Great Pyramid.

Furthermore, 432 Hz resonates with 8 Hz (the Schumann Resonance), the documented fundamental electromagnetic “beat” of Earth. It just feels better.

Research says that music tuned from this frequency is easier to listen to, brighter, clearer, and contains more inherent dynamic range. As a result, music with this tuning need not be played at higher volumes and thus reduces the risk of hearing damage.

The more radical among middle “A” haters insist that the true frequency should be 528 Hz because it’s a “digital bio-holographic precipitation crystallization [and] miraculous manifestation of diving frequency vibrations.” I have no idea what that means.

Here’s where the conspiracy comes in. There is allegedly something sinister and evil about 440 Hz. It is said that the Rockefeller Foundation had an interest in making sure the United States adopted the 440 Hz standard in 1935 as part of a “war on consciousness” leading to “musical cult control.”

Without going too far down this rat hole, this theory says that tuning all music to 440 Hz turns it into a military weapon.

I quote from one of the many online articles on the subject:

“The monopolization of the music industry features this imposed frequency that is ‘herding’ populations into greater aggression, psychosocial agitation, and emotional distress predisposing people to physical illnesses and financial impositions profiting the agents, agencies, and companies engaged in the monopoly.”

Going a little deeper, we end up at the doorstep of the Nazis. It is said that propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels insisted that on 440 Hz tuning in Germany because he believed it made people think and feel in specific ways, making them “a prisoner of a certain consciousness.”

And if you’re trying to mobilize the population for Der Fuhrer, that’s exactly what you want, right?

There’s more from the Tinfoil Headphones crowd:

“The powers that be are successfully lowering the vibrations of not only the young generation but the rest of us as well.

These destructive frequencies entrain the thoughts towards disruption, disharmony, and disunity.

Additionally, they also stimulate the controlling organ of the body — the brain — into disharmonious resonance, which ultimately creates disease and war.”

There’s something to think about the next time you pop in some earbuds. Does listening to music make you feel more warlike and diseased?

Let’s test it out with this video. (this video is shown as being ‘private’ and cannot be viewed – Ed)

Got that? Now try another experiment. Here are two versions of Coldplay’s “The Scientist,” starting with the standard version from their 2002 album, A Rush of Blood to the Head.

Any feelings of war or disease yet?

Now listen to this. It’s a version of the same song that’s been tuned down to the supposedly more natural frequency of 432 Hz. Can you feel a difference?

I’ve also been told that the different effects these frequencies have on our chakras. Songs tuned to 440 Hz work on the third eye chakra (the “thinking”) while 432 Hz stimulates the heart chakra (the “feeling”).

Therefore, 432 Hz music increases the spiritual development of the listener. It may even have healing properties.

There are numerous organizations advocating a universal switch to 432 Hz, but that would involve upsetting worldwide standards, not to mention the construction and re-tuning of millions of musical instruments. Nice idea, but it ain’t gonna happen.

If that idea stressed you out, please meditate on this special 432 Hz music.

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    Howdy

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    I got involved in this over a decade ago, and yes I heard it was the Germans that were behind it.

    440 Hz tuning is said to be dissonant to the body, affecting well being, while 432 Hz is the natural tuning, and can be demonstrated by playing sounds at particular frequencies that will then excite the chakras at the resonant frequency. This can be felt, and displays as, for example a feeling of wanting to vomit in the case of the solar plexus should it be over exited.
    The frequencies can be electronic, or a human voice.

    528 Hz is commonly called ‘the love frequency’, and comes from the solfeggio numbers range. Often claimed to be the chakra frequencies, they are not. Experiments with these frequencies shows no reaction other than at 528 Hz, which caused a reaction behind the upper part of the nose, approximating the pituitary gland.

    Look on video sites for various claims of various frequencies claiming this and that, which is untrue.

    A real shamen, who, at least a decade ago had downloadable sound files, as well as other interesting stuff. Don’t know about now:
    https://tomkenyon.com/

    Listen and watch the beat frequencies:

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      Wisenox

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      Thanks for the site, I was actually intending to look more into the material.

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        Howdy

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        You may be interested in this then, Wisenox:

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          Wisenox

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          Good links.  I agree with the Burton guy about the chakra values.  The link about the God numbers is very interesting.
          If you take the pi root 1.57 and phi root 1.03, you have 0.54 difference, which is listed as a god number, and halved is the 27 from the sun. 
          It is amazing how the same dataset can be applied to so many arts.  It’s been used for weights and measures, the solar system, color, light, music, nature, architecture…
          Almost surreal; and the whole thing can be described using only division if you wanted. 
          I’m putting it into an android app now with a c++ backend.  The math is so basic, I feel like it’s overkill.
          It is so odd that a dataset can become a hobby.

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            Howdy

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            Glad it was useful to you.

            I’m more on the physical results than the figuring out.

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    C. Paul Wheeler, MS

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    I wholeheartedly agree with you; as an organist, tuning any instrument to the 432 A is much more pleasant, and the richness of the tone is very soothing as compared to the 440 A. I’m a firm believer in this tuning and certainly wish is was the standard.

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    Wisenox

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    I noticed a difference in coldplay songs. 432 was softer and more pleasing. 440 sounded tinny and high strung.
    The past couple days I’ve been trying some old CIA flow techniques. Can’t comment on the concepts, but there is an interesting effect from one of the exercises.
    In the exercise, you mentally resonate your mind with the noise. It can be hard to hold onto; gets a little weird.

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    Gerald Brennan

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    Interesting, but sorry to be Dr. Buzzkill — orchestras all over the world tune in different pitch for A. The 440 is not a real standard. Also, pitch has been creeping up for centuries in search of more ‘brilliance.’ The pitch used by Bach and other composers like Mozart and Beethoven (before 1816) was closer to A-430.5 Hz, which was the “old pitch” of Europe. The chakra stuff was cool.

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