Wind the cord with the grain--and why I'm going back to 440

 

Simply put, why fight it?

I heard about this thing called 432 from my internet conspiracy site. That doesn't automatically make it not true, but it is a good indication of where it is headed. 

432hz is a tuning pitch slightly below the world accepted standard concert pitch of 440. According to the internet tards, 440 was adopted by the Nazis in WW2 to create an atmosphere of agitation and aggression and to make the troops hyper and the people less in sync with the natural, organically correct, earth-based vibe of 432. 

While it may be true that visually evident resonance tests (cymatics) using instruments tuned to 432hz,  do, indeed, vibe well with sand and paper plates, throwing off nifty patterns as you dial in certain notes--the fact remains: 440 is where the world's musicians tune up and what virtually everything you've ever heard on record, tape, CD, MP3 or otherwise, is going to be tuned to. 

If you wanna jam with a paper plate and some sand, sure, go with 432. But if you want to sound like you're not slow in the head, out of tune and flat, then join in lock-step with the rest of the world, and don't throw out those old tuning forks just yet.

Same thing applies to winding up guitar cords. They have a natural bend or grain that they have acquired from their being rolled into a loop. When rolling them back up for storage, always go with the grain, and you won't develop kinks or cause undue stress on the wires inside. 

I learned this from my cult's music ministry roadies, who would shout at you as if you were going to use wire hangers on cotton or some other atrocity, if they caught you winding a cord up improperly. Some things do just make sense, despite where or how the tradition originated.

So, if cult members or Nazis tell me how I ought to be winding my cords or tuning my guitar, as long as I can jam with the rest of the world and be in tune, I'm gonna go for it. Good enough for the Beatles or Jeff Beck or Jimmy Page, fine by me. Maybe they can start manufacturing some 440 resonant paper plates, so the cymatics people can be included as well.