Tuning to A-432, the Mozart A, for Health, Harmony and Happiness

Norbert [Brainin] was especially interested in...the field of the science of music. At the end of the 1980’s, this meant above all the fight for the “low tuning” of C=256 Hz, the so-called “Verdi A” of 432 Hz, a proposal which the famous Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi had made in a discussion with LaRouche.

After long conversations concerning the scientific relevance--and not only the obvious practical one--of a unified (lower) tuning in opposition to today’s absurdly high “Karajan tuning” of A well above 440 Hz, Brainin, who of course had grasped the meaning of this question for singers immediately, studied the problem intensely.

Using the Adagio from Bach’s Sonata for Violin solo in G-minor, he demonstrated for the first time in a private setting with LaRouche, his wife Helga Zepp LaRouche, and some friends, in August 1988 in his beautiful summer house in northern Tuscany, the fact that a Classical composition (and also his Strad) sounded much better--i.e., “fuller” and more transparent at the same time--in the “low tuning.”

Before that, though, Brainin “paid tribute to science.” In order to demonstrate the superiority of the “low tuning,” in a parliamentary hearing in Rome, which became the basis for a parliamentary initiative to pass a law on the “Verdi A,” Prof. Bruno Barosi, the director of the world-renowned International Institute of Violin Making, in Cremona, Italy, invited brainin to his laboratory, recorded certain tones (and their octaves) both in the low and high tuning, did a spectral analysis, and finally evaluated the findings.

At first, Barosi and his assistant were totally baffled at the absolute precision of Brainin’s intonation: “I have had almost all of the world’s top violinists in my lab, but something like this, I have never seen. Brainin is precise to the very Hertz, and that always. Again, and again. That is truly unique.”

The other findings were not so surprising, but equally clear: The lower tuning created a larger sum of overtones, which explains the fuller sound; it was also proven, that Brainin’s Strad had its best resonance by far at exactly C=256 Hz, which is about A=432 Hz.

(end Helmut Cramer quote)

Dr. Luanne Oakes has done enormous research with this tuning. She has balanced, energized and healed the chakra system using this A-432 resonance as part of her work.

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