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Orchestras have been tuning to the woodwinds for donkeys. Whatever freq is an A on an oboe is what everybody else tunes to.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
German orchestras are known for tuning slightly sharp of that. e.g. Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Herbert von Karajan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch
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All the pieces he plays (rather well too) sound better at 440 to me - better-tuned and more 'harmonious' - but that's possibly because the guitar has been deliberately built to resonate best at concert pitch.
It proves nothing - other than that guitar sounds better at 440 - and all the rest is numerological new age bollocks.
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Always bugged me as a kid when I was trying to play along to cds and it sounded awful until I dissed my little Korg tuner was set to 441
I couldn't tell the difference!
Is this why I'm so shit at playing guitar?
What it made me think about though, is people with supposed perfect pitch. Would they hear an A at 440 or 432? And by implication is it at least partly learnt rather than natural?
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What's natural is that when they hear 440hz tone without any context, they'll know it's A that they're hearing whereas most of us couldn't know what note it was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=EKTZ151yLnk
Don't give up on it before 1:45, though.