![]() The greater our exposure to different music and sound, the greater our creative adaptability becomes. However, I think the real disadvantage is not so much a standardized A-‐440 as it is our exposure to limited forms of music on radio and television. The disadvantage is that where there is the least amount of diversity, the more limited our creative adaptability. As a musician I can expect pianos to be tuned to A-‐440 whereever I go. The advantage is consistency and not spending hours tuning instruments. I believe that standardization of pitch has advantages and disadvantages. I do not ascribe to the conspiracy theories concerning the implementation of A-‐440 in the West as standardized concert pitch. ![]() There is a great debate in the musical and healing field about a standardized tuning tone. However, in classical Indian music, the musicians will meditate and spend many hours, sometimes days, discovering “the right” Sa tone for a performance. We have come to rely on a standard tuning of A440 and use electronic tuning devices. In our modern Western music system “feel right” has been eliminated. The most important consideration for musicians for thousands of years was to discover and rediscover a tonic that “feels right” for the tuning of their instruments at the moment. Different moments, days, and times have their own unique tone signatures. The tonic “sets the tone” of everything that follows. Do or Ut, is very important to understand in the context of the healing arts. We do know that Pythagorean tuning based on a mobile Ut was the basis for all Gregorian tuning systems.Ī moveable tonic, i.e. We do not have any idea of how Ut was tuned in terms of modern day frequencies because they did not have frequency measuring devices in the 8th Century. ![]() What is most important is the relationship / intervals between the tones. In other words the Ut could change from day to day. The Ut or Do in music is called a tonic and ideally the tonic is mobile and not fixed. The sagram system for singing and chanting tones has been used in India thousands of years and is also based on natural intervals. Sagram is an acronym that represents musical tones similar to Do Re Mi. In the East in Indian classical music, the equivalent to the Solfeggio is called sargram. In the West, the intervals of the Solfeggio are at least 1500 years old. Pythagoras the Greek was a philosopher and mathematician who lived from 570-‐ 496BC. Solfeggio is based on a natural system of tuning called Pythagorean tuning. The Latin text translates as “So that your servants may sing with clear voices the wonders of your deeds and wash the guilt from their stained lips.” My modified translation based on my knowledge of sound healing is, “So that we, the servants of the divine, may sing with tuned voices, and bring ourselves in resonance with the wonders of your vibrational universe”. Ut was changed to “Do” in the 1600’s and the change from Sa to Si is lost to antiquity. ![]() The hymm contains the original Do Re Mi although in the those days it was Ut Re Mi. John the Babtist written by Paul the Deacon in the 8th Century A.D. The Christian roots of Solfeggio go back to a Gregorian Chant titled The Hymm to St. We are all familiar with the Solfeggio scale either from singing it in elementary school music class or from popular songs like “Do Re Me” from the Sound of Music. Today Solfeggio is a singing technique used to teach music students how to recognize musical intervals. ![]()
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