David Darling

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349 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 1 Aug

David Darling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Well, they emerged at a certain time.

They obviously had a natural talent between them, as McCartney and Lennon in songwriting.

They were aided by advances in technology at the time, in studio equipment, and had a good, very good musical director as well.

And so these ingredients came together.

What's interesting about the Beatles actually is if you try to play along.

Yeah, f say from the you know, one of the w the original albums, the first one or two.

You play along with your guitar, say, as I as I've done, and you tune your guitar to what you think is the uh concert pitch, where a

uh middle A is is four forty cycles per second.

That would be what you'd get off your tuning fork.

You'll find that you're actually out of tune with with what the Beatles were playing.

Now that that doesn't mean that the Beatles were, you know, playing badly or they were purposely playing out of tune.

But what they did was they would they roll up to the studio.

They didn't have much money, so they had to tune in to whatever instrument was available, which was usually the upright piano.

And if that piano happened to be not in concert pitch, neither would their instruments be.

So they were in tune with themselves, uh, but not with, for example, what an orchestra would have been.

So that was one of the curiosities of early studio recording.

You get some of these songs uh that are on these well-known albums, and they're not actually in the pitch that they really should be in.

Well, it i it is right.

I mean, in the sense that, you know, they didn't write music for others to play along with in a sense.

They didn't really think about it.

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