Frequency and Harmony – Understanding the Relationship

As Above So Below

As the frequency of each solar system is comprised of the frequency of its planets and their moons and satellites, so is the frequency of communities comprised of the frequencies of the individuals within the community. II follows that the frequency of the family unit is comprised of the frequencies of the individuals within the family. Finally reaching the individual; the individual frequency is comprised of the frequencies of all the individual cells in the physical body as well as the individual frequencies of each of the etheric bodies.
So you can see that if we can increase the harmony of our own individual frequency, we can ultimately affect the harmony of our planet as well as All That Is.

Choosing to Enter the Physical Realm

As souls, our long-term goal is to attain harmony with Source. The word "harmony "is synonymous with the word "one". If we were already in harmony as "One with Source" there would be no necessity to enter the physical realm. The physical realm is a teaching area where we have opportunities to learn lessons contracted to move towards harmony with Source.

Entering the Physical Realm

The lessons to be learned are identifiable through the harmony of our chakra system. This graphic represents our "out of harmony" state.

The Soul's Ultimate goal of Harmony

Each soul undertakes many lifetimes to learn the life lessons necessary to reach harmony.

Our individual frequency is comprised of all the frequencies of all the chakra. Our individual frequency reflects who we are as a soul, any trauma experienced from previous lives and the lessons we need to learn during our visit to this realm. Our individual frequency draws circumstances to us and us to circumstances that match our frequency.

These circumstances provide opportunities for us to learn and change our frequency. As long as we don't change our frequency, we will continue to draw the same lessons to us, just in different forms. If you don't pay attention the first time a lesson is presented, the lesson will intensify each time, gradually to be likened to a baseball bat in order to get our attention.

Like most people, I've had a number of these types of lessons. They are painful but after a while, I became more aware and able to see the lessons prior to them becoming a "baseball bat".

Learning our life lessons is only one way we can harmonize our frequency. Any time we feel joy or love we move towards harmony. Meditation also will shift us towards harmony (if you don't start out your meditation in joy and love, the meditation will take you there).

The Goal of all Healing

We know that all physical ailments are manifestations and reflect the frequency of the lessons we have contracted to learn. Whether it is a medical prescription, or acupuncture, or energy, the aim is to bring the body into harmony.

The use of Crystal Singing Bowls is one of many ways in which we can entrain and move ourselves towards harmony.

Crystal Singing Bowls - Frequency or Harmony?

Every note has a range of frequencies, (none more or less correct than any other). When leading an orchestra, the conductor is responsible for the harmony of the music played. In order to do this the musicians are requested to tune their instruments so that every instrument that plays a C will play the same frequency. This is done by using a "common denominator"; and the conductor will request that the musicians use a certain "tuning" as a common denominator. Often the note of A is used as a base with a frequency specified as being 432 hertz or 440 hertz or ???. Once the frequency of one note is specified, there is a mathematical formula to identify the frequency of the remaining notes so that each of the 12 notes are 1/12th of the octave; the end result is harmony.

There are various beliefs about which is the "best" tuning frequency for the note of A. I would suggest that it is more important to achieve harmony than to worry about which tuning is used.

Identifying the Voice of a Crystal Singing Bowl

Upon birth, each bowl is played and their voice is identified as it related to the musical scale.

The base from which each bowl is identified is the common denominator of A=440hz. 440hz is neither a right nor a wrong base. We could just as easily use A=432hz or C=528hz. Whatever common denominator chosen, it is simply a common denominator from which we can mathematically identify the harmonic hertz of the other notes.

Once the common denominator is chosen, all the notes of the bowls can be mathematically calculated. Their note identification reflects the degree to which the calculation aligns with the common denominator.

Every note has a range of 100 "cents" which works out to 50 cents on the negative side of zero and 50 cents on the positive side of zero. The closer the cents are to 0 the closer the bowl is to being a "True Tone" as it relates to the chosen common denominator.

Over time, people have been convinced that a certain common denominator is better than another. This has resulted in a situation of supply and demand, allowing for a premium to be placed upon bowls that are identified as a "true tone".

It's important to keep in mind that the common denominator is not as important as the harmony of the bowls used to bring our bodies into harmony.

Below I have given some history, facts and fictions that should help you decide about the common denominators. Whatever common denominator you decide that you want your bowls to reflect (A=440hz or A=432hz), it is my honour to help with that.

Fact and Fiction About 440, 432, 528 hertz

A=440 Hertz

A440 (also known as Stuttgart pitch) is the musical pitch corresponding to an audio frequency of 440 Hz, which serves as a tuning standard for the musical note of A above middle C, or A4 in scientific pitch notation.

It is standardized by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 16. While other frequencies have been (and occasionally still are) used to tune the first A above middle C, A440 is now commonly used as a reference frequency to calibrate acoustic equipment and to tune pianos, violins, and other musical instruments.

Before standardization on 440 Hz, many countries and organizations followed the French standard since the 1860s of 435 Hz, which had also been the Austrian government's 1885 recommendation. A440 was recognized as a standard in 1834 after the "tonometer" was invented to measure pitch, and it was approved by the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians the same year.

The American music industry reached an informal standard of 440 Hz in 1926, and some began using it in instrument manufacturing.

In 1936, the American Standards Association recommended that the A above middle C be tuned to 440 Hz.

This standard was taken up by the International Organization for Standardization in 1955, being formalized in 1975. It is designated A4 in scientific pitch notation because it occurs in the octave that starts with the fourth C key on a standard 88-key piano keyboard.

A440 is widely used as concert pitch in the United Kingdom and the United States. In continental Europe the frequency of A4 commonly varies between 440 Hz and 444 Hz.

In the period instrument movement, a consensus has arisen around a modern baroque pitch of 415 Hz (with 440 Hz corresponding to A♯).

A=432 Hertz

The magic number everybody is talking about. It is said to be the natural frequency of the earth and to have cosmic healing powers and to attract masses of audience to our music. Just by tuning our music less than a semitone below our standard A=440Hz we are promised direct access to the universe's hidden treasures.
If this is the frequency of the earth, is there anyone who would suggest that the earth is currently in harmony?

Fiction: Ancient instruments such as Tibetan bowls, Pythagoras monochord, ancient flutes, have been found to use 432 Hz as their base pitch.
Facts:

Hertz is a modern term coined in 1930. Before that it was referred as “Cycles Per Second”. The first time “Cycles Per Second” could be accurately measured was in 1834, when two instruments were invented: the (remodeled) Savart Wheel by Félix Savart, and the Tonometer by Johann Scheibler.

Further than that—the measurement of Seconds has only begun during the late 16th century.

Ancient Tibetans, Pythagoras and anyone before 1834 could not have intentionally tuned their instrument to measure 432 Hz as this frequency scale simply did not exist at the time.

Fiction: Pythagoras’ A was 432 Hz.

Pythagoras’ tuning system is ratio based. It is not based on an absolute pitch, but rather on the relations from an arbitrary reference pitch. We already know Pythagoras could not have known what a second is, so he could not know what Hertz meant. Indeed 432 is a multiplication of the ratio between C and A, where C is 1 and A is 27/16 which is the same as 432/256—however this applies to any base frequency and has nothing to do with a specific hertz.

Pythagoras’s tuning system was based on cycling perfect fifths. However, cycling fifths will never get you to complete a circle—unless one of the fifths is diminished. In other words, the Pythagorean scale has to be 'tuned-down' a little each octave in order to maintain its consistency. This makes the temperament uneven and sound “off” when playing music with complex harmonies, and this is exactly the reason it was abandoned.

Fiction: Mozart used 432 Hz for all of his music.

The only evidence for Mozart’s A comes from an ancient tuning fork from 1780 with the tone of A=421.6 Hz. This tuning fork belonged to the Viennese piano builder Johann Andreas Stein, the leading piano maker in Vienna at the time, who was responsible for Mozart's pianos as well as Haydn’s and Beethoven’s. It is likely that they have all used A=421.6Hz.

Handel’s personal pitch fork was found 30 years earlier in England and was tuned to A=422.5Hz - pretty close to Mozart! and pretty far from 432 Hz.

Fiction: Verdi has used 432hz for all his music.

Verdi used several tunings across his life. As an opera composer he was aware of the pitch inflation (pitch standards rapidly rising to achieve a brighter orchestral sound) that was happening in his time, and was concerned it was putting a strain on singers voices as they struggle to hit the high notes on a score.

Verdi has requested his Requiem to be tuned to 435 Hz (according to the 1859 French “diapason normal” standard) and in a later letter he has expressed a slight preference for 432 Hz. Verdi is the only known composer to even hint towards 432 Hz, and it was obviously for completely different reasons than cosmic spirituality.

Fiction: 432 Hz is the way everybody used to tune in the past, but we have now forgotten the ancient wisdom of our ancestors.

Musicologist Alexander John Ellis has searched, measured and documented ancient pipe organs and tuning forks. the only mention of 432 Hz was proposed in Italy in 1880 (by Verdi), and we already know that this was done for practical reasons rather than spiritual ones. The fact is that before standardization, the pitch of A fluctuated heavily between 400 Hz and 460 Hz.

Fiction: 432 Hz is the frequency of the heart / brain / earth / sun / water

The frequency of the heart fluctuates between approximately 1 Hz to 2.5Hz. It does not have a steady frequency that can be multiplied to achieve 432 Hz.

Brainwaves or Neural Oscillations range between approximately 1 Hz and 70 Hz and are not tuned to 8 Hz or other divisions of 432 Hz in any way.

The Schumann resonance is a set of electromagnetic oscillations that originate from earth. One of them currently resonates at an average of 7.83Hz and not 8 Hz. which if multiplied by 55 gives us an A=430.65 Hz. Close, but no cigar.

Astronomers at Stanford have recorded super sonic oscillations from the sun at around 5.964 GHz. They had to slow them down (change their pitch) by 42,000 times to accidentally hit the frequency of 142 Hz - and not 144 as claimed by some which would again bring us a frequency of A=426Hz.

Water molecules can vibrate in a wide band of extremely high frequencies close to the infrared spectrum (90–110 Tera Hz). The band is wide enough to not favor any specific frequency, let alone 432 Hz.

Fiction: Goebbels and the Nazis tried to take over the world with A440Hz.

In fact, it was the British Standards Institute who arranged an international conference in London 1939 where it was internationally agreed for A=440Hz to be the standard.

Fiction: Cymatics—the unexplored scientific realm, provides images as proof for 432 Hz being the frequency of water/universe.

In fact, it was the British Standards Institute who arranged an international conference in London 1939 where it was internationally agreed for A=440Hz to be the standard.

There have been several videos and images out there presenting beautiful cymatic imagery as proof for the 432 Hz theory. However these images are produced by resonant bodies (water or metal plates) which can be tuned to resonate at different frequencies.

This means that metal plates or bodies of water that are tuned to resonate at 440 Hz (just like a string on a guitar) will produce lovely cymatic shapes at… you guessed it, 440 Hz!

The geometric shapes are created due to a well known phenomena called standing waves.

Fiction: Your music will sound better at A=432Hz

Musical aesthetics is a flexible thing. Musicians are not obligated to use 440 Hz as their base frequencies, and many orchestras around the world use different pitches according to the music they are about to play. It is generally agreed that baroque music is to be played at around A 415Hz, classical and early romantic eras at around 425 Hz and later repertoire at 440 Hz and up.

Tuning to different pitches has subtle effects on the timbre of acoustic instruments, but makes no difference to electronically generated sounds.

C=1 Hertz, C=528 Hertz, A=430.5

By now, you realize that the "standards" are created by humans based upon their current knowledge and beliefs. Both change as we learn more.

I became curious about these standards and did some "playing" with mathematics.

I believe strongly that "We are all one" - just different drops in a large ocean. Each drop in the ocean has slight differences but they are all ocean water. We know there are slight differences because of the differences in flora and fauna inherent in the various areas. Human beings are also all one with Source, however our frequencies differ due to the life lessons we have contracted to learn. "One" is the magic number.

Once I recognized the number one as a key, I wondered which note/chakra corresponded with the 1 hertz. I used the standard calculations to identify the notes and found that the note of C or the Root chakra was closest to the number one. This isn't really surprising as so much of our experience on this physical plane is tied to the degree of safety we have.

The calculation was off by decimal places so, recognizing that the premise was a human construct, I reversed the calculation and started at one. This resulted in A=430.538965hz. This is very close to the Schumann resonance as indicated above. The Schumann Resonance is a set of electromagnetic oscillations that originate from earth. One of them currently resonates at an average of 7.83Hz which if multiplied by 55 gives us an A=430.65 Hz.

What does this mean to our souls and their journey towards harmony with Source?

The tuning we use is irrelevant. This is not to say you can't choose a tuning if your intuition leads you to it but the tuning you choose is irrelevant.

The importance lies with harmony. So, using bowls as an example, if all your bowls are tuned to 436hz, then your set will be in harmony and using them will entrain you towards harmony.

It would be nice to believe we are old souls and will attain harmony in this lifetime. That is not reality for most of us. We still have many lifetimes to experience before we complete our lessons.

At this stage of our journey, our goal is to move towards harmony by learning the life lessons of our contract.

Converting Frequency to a Musical Note

The voice of Crystal Singing Bowls are identified using the tuning of 440 Hertz.

The tuning can be converted to any other tuning you wish. Below there is conversion app.

You can see from the default values the equivalency for 3 tunings - 440 hertz, 432 hertz, and 431.5 hertz.

Use the app to convert a frequency to a note.

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