David Darling

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

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Something You Should Know · How to Harness Your Intuition & The Surprising Science Hidden in Music · 15 Sep 2025 podcast

They were in a hurry to get recorders, so they all rolled in with their instruments, which would presumably be all out of tune, because guitar is equal easily out of tune.

So what would they do is they would they would tune into whatever instrument was available and would and would be in tune with itself at least, and that would be generally the piano.

So uh if if the if the piano was a few cycles per second out of you know true pitch, that's that's what the the th the piece would be played in.

And you find this quite a lot in the early Beatles.

It can be sometimes a little bit high, sometimes a little bit low.

They're all in tune with each other, so it sounds great, but it's just not in standard tuning.

Of course, they they they'd had to fix that eventually because they started playing with orchestral instruments.

instruments and you can't expect an orchestra to tune to whatever you happen to be tuned in.

It's the other way around.

So these days you don't you find that that doesn't happen.

Of course, you've got electronic tuners and all the rest of it.

So that's not necessarily a problem.

But you do find it back in the the sixties music.

The piano is the biggie because once you get a keyboard instrument like that, I mean if you've got a if you've got a string instrument, for example, you can easily retune it.

Or if you've got a a wind instrument, you could have a variety of windstrom.

They're fairly simple.

So you could have, for example, a variety of flutes where the holes are at different places spacings.

But something as big as a say a church organ or a piano.

You know, it's fixed.

You can't go around retuning the piano every time you want to play in a different key.

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