Tuning Guitar to Solfeggio Harmonics C is 528hz etc

I have been reading about solfeggio harmonics and some interesting claims and was interested to try it out for myself. I struggled to find much information about how to actually tune the guitar, so I made this video to help me and anyone else who is interested quickly tune up. An A of 444hz instead of 440 will give you a C of 528Hz, which is said to be part of the Solfeggio scale.

If anyone cares, in order to tune in the first place I used a program called PD (similar to Max MSP) to generate the frequencies. It's free but has a bit of a learning curve. I first tuned using an A at 444Hz, then checked it against a C at 528Hz and a G at 396 Hz. I worked out which note was which by comparing the list of solfeggio frequencies (174, 285, 396, 417, 528, 639, 741, 852, 936 according to various colourful websites :-) to a list of standard western tunings from this website: http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html and seeing which ones were closest.

I'm quite liking the sound so far. Leave a comment if you have any Solfeggio scale music to share.

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[topher4575]

Confused, is it 444 or 432 hz to get to 528?



[govangovan]

@topher4575 Tuning your A String to 444 should give you a C of 528 Hz (by my calculations, which might be wrong :-)

[jondavidgriffin]

i was just reading about a=444 tuning so i clicked on your video to check it out. i picked up my guitar and guess what... it was already there POW!

[govangovan]

@jondavidgriffin nice!

[topher4575]

@alachabre: After playing with it for a couple of days; I think you are correct

[alachabre]

@topher4575 I think you misunderstood my comment. The guitar being used in this video is out of tune, regardless of the reference frequency. The intervals are incorrect - some are sharp, some are flat. About your comment of the first recorded use of orchestral a' at 440Hz, assuming you mean the late 1930's, you are off by 110 years (Lissajous, Paris, 1829). This Solfeggio crap is nothing but numerology. Try tuning a guitar to those numbers; it will not be musical.

[topher4575]

@ItsSoPlausible: Check out the iPhone app GuiTune. You can switch to any frequency you want.

[topher4575]

@alachabre:440hz was introduced in the late 30s. It’s not some universal tuning that has always been. It’s only out of tune because you have been conditioned to think 440hz is in tune.

[topher4575]

@govangovan: You are claculations are correct. Thanks for posting. 432hz is another good tuning I hear

[topher4575]

@ItsSoPlausible: All you need is a chromatic tuner. You can get one on an iPhone for $5. GuiTune lets you tune to any frequency you want

[bkindglassworks]

@ItsSoPlausible snark clip on tuners

[bkindglassworks]

@ItsSoPlausible snark clip on tuners