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Healing Frequencies Gavin Smart
Healing Frequencies Gavin Smart
Chapter 1
The idea that music has magical properties can be traced back as far as historians,
scientists and archaeologists can tell us about the origins of the human race. Many
religions contain beliefs about music that take its power far beyond the realms of mere
entertainment. For a long time these have always been thought of simply as myths but
with the ever increasing advances of science many discoveries are being made that are
starting to show that there is some factual basis to these beliefs and that as we become
aware of how to use this knowledge it may alter the very fabric of our understanding of
reality. My goal for this paper was to research these ancient beliefs and to look at how
they relate to modern science in order to have a greater understanding of how we can
use sound effectively and responsibly for the greater good of mankind.
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of music, it may even have the ability to express greater harmonic variety than modern
This find shows us that the musical knowledge that we have now may have been with
the human race at its very beginnings and as I shall explain later on they may have
even had advanced knowledge that we are only now starting to rediscover.
Fossil remains found in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa show us that the human
beings that inhabited the earth 300,000 years ago were not dissimilar to modern
humans and would be indistinguishable from those around them if they were to walk
down the street today. Many books have been written to try to explain why human
(which despite popular belief is still just a theory as there is still no direct evidence of an
evolutionary link between homo sapiens and our nearest ancestor). The most famous of
these are the Earth Chronicles written by Zecharia Sitchin, that are based on
translations of the oldest known human writing found in ancient Mesopotamia or what is
now Iraq. His books follow a tradition started by authors such as Erich von
of ancient religions. In his books which span 7 volumes and 20 years of work. he shows
that the biblical texts are direct translations of the Sumerian writings and gives an in
depth and extremely detailed account of how the earth was created during an
interplanetary collision and how an alien race arrived here 450,000 years ago to extract
precious minerals and subsequently genetically engineered the human race to mine the
minerals for them by splicing their DNA with the DNA of homo erectus. (Sitchin 1990)
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Although many scientists and writers have put forward some convincing criticism of his
works (Including Alan f Alford whose first book Gods of The New Millennium made his
theories more widely accepted in Britain, though many people believe he was silenced
by the CIA), they have spawned hundreds of books and literally thousands of websites
following on from his ideas. Could it be that this alien race referred to by Sitchin as the
Annunaki are responsible for giving us the knowledge of music theory that until very
Sumer was the earliest known civilization in the world and was based in southern
Mesopotamia or what is now southern Iraq. They were known to have developed
intensive cultivation of crops by 5000 BC, which enabled them to live in densely
populated cities. The labor force required for this cultivation required a lot of
organization and by 3500 BC they had developed the first known writing and a base 60
number system that we still feel the influence of today every time we look at a clock or
measure an angle. It is also thought to be the origin of our own base 10 system as their
system was built from a single unit symbol and a ten symbol.
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The Sumerians were also the first people to use musical notation. In March 1974 a team
from the University of California deciphered what is considered to be the world’s oldest
song. They found that they could read and perform from musical notes on a cuneiform
tablet dating from around 1800 BC. Many of the Sumerian hymnal texts that have been
In his paper, first published in ‘The World and I’, February 1994, Ernest McClain claims
that “Their gods were assigned numbers that encoded the primary ratios of music, with
the gods' functions corresponding to their numbers in acoustical theory. Thus the
Sumerians created an extensive tonal/arithmetical model for the cosmos. In this far-
reaching allegory, the physical world is known by analogy, and the gods give divinity not
mathematical patterns and psychological forces.” He then goes on to explain how the
numbers and ratios that were known to define musical intervals were passed down
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Chapter 2
Much of our current knowledge of music theory has been attributed to the work of the
ancient Greeks, most notably Pythagoras. Often referred to as the ‘Father of Science’
Pythagoras of Samos was a philosopher, mystic, mathematician and scientist who was
educated in the mystery schools of Egypt during the 6 th century BC and went on to
credited with discovering the mathematical ratios of music, though it is more likely that
he was simply passing on knowledge taught to him by the Egyptian priests while
Music of The Spheres’ that bears a striking similarity to the musical and numerological
beliefs of the Sumerian culture 3000 years earlier. He believed that everything that we
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perceive in the universe has a particular vibration and that once we know the rate of
vibration we would be able to have an influence on it. He concluded that the harmony
between musical notes extended to the entire universe and that it should be possible to
discern the rates of vibration of all the stars and planets and personally attune oneself
Forum 1951). As we shall see later this is something that the field of quantum physics is
Pythagoras created his own society known as ‘The Pythagoreans’ whose study of
Rosicrucians. The theories they developed led to the development of Numerology that
became extremely important within the ancient religions of the Middle East. The music
of the spheres played a central role in the development of music theory in the Muslim
world. Astronomy and music were very closely related and instruments such as the lute,
which was considered the most perfect and noble instrument, had to be made to
universal order. From about the ninth century onwards music theorists worked all
through the Islamic world to develop a complex system of musical modes that is said to
have evolved from an older Persian system of seven modes corresponding to the seven
planets, into a system of twelve modes for the twelve signs of the zodiac (according to
Zecharia Sitchin the Sumerians firmly believed in 12 planets and that the number 7 is
important as earth is the 7th planet that the Annunaki encounter when their home planet
of Nibiru enters our solar system). The system was then further evolved to include
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different modes for such things as animal sounds, body fluids and elements. Each mode
performed. This system is still widely used today in the form of the Indian Raga’s that
relate to different times of the day and different seasons. (Pacholczyk 1996)
Chapter 3
The Solfeggio
In 1999 Dr Len Horowitz and Joseph Puleo published a book entitled Healing codes for
the Biological Apocalypse, in which they put forward a theory that an ancient musical
scale known as the Solfeggio that was believed to have powerful healing properties has
been repressed by those in power in favor of our current system that they claim is
emerging diseases and natural healing. After studying behavioral science and media
sellers and was voted author of the year in 1999 for his book Emerging Viruses: AIDS
show how many of the world’s most terrifying diseases such as AIDS and BSE were
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corporations who control the worlds governments from behind the scenes. Many of the
information that he gives is far too shocking and controversial to be reported in the
mainstream media and researchers who publish works of this kind are usually branded
as ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ (a term that has been given a kind of stigma that leads people
to automatically dis-believe anything that they have to say). A good example of this is
Author David Icke whose claims that the royal family are reptilian shape shifters have
led to universal ridicule in the media. Many people are very quick to dismiss the claims
of these types of author until they actually read their books but when they do they see
that the evidence offered is so compelling that they can longer discount them despite
When looking into the world of conspiracy theories it is always wise to tread carefully as
there is so much contradictory information out there that it is hard to know who to
believe. Many conspiracy theorists are often accused of twisting the facts to suit their
theories or only looking at the information that supports their theory and discarding that
which doesn’t. Although this often happens on both sides of the fence. (Many
Egyptologists still claim that the great pyramid was built by the pharaoh Khufu 4600
years ago even though the only piece of evidence for this is one piece of graffiti that
was suspiciously found in a sealed chamber by explorer Colonel Howard Vyse in 1837,
who was desperate to make a discovery to justify his years of searching. The graffiti
contained several dramatic errors and the royal cartouche of Khufu was clearly copied
from one of the few specialist books around at the time that Vyse had referred to
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regularly in his diaries, as it contained exactly the same error that was found in the
book)
In Healing Codes Horowitz and Puleo claim to have found hidden codes in the King
James Bible that reveal sacred frequencies that the church claims to have lost centuries
ago. He claims that King James was a high ranking freemason and that the King James
Bible was created in order to preserve secret knowledge controlled by the Knights
Templar. The writing was coordinated by his Masonic brother and Lord Chancellor sir
Francis Bacon, who has been the subject of more than twenty thousand books and
articles claiming him to be the real author of the works of William Shakespeare. Francis
Bacon was also an initiate of the Rosicrucian order and as such would have been well
According to the head of the Scottish Rite freemasons, Laurence Gardner, The origins
of Friday the thirteenth can be traced back to 1307 when pope clement the 5 th and king
Philippe the 4th of France issued orders to be opened on Friday the 13 th that every
member of the Knights Templar were to be rounded up and killed. The Templars had
become the richest order the world had ever known (The international banking network
that we use today was originally set up by the knights templar at this time) The king had
hoped to lay his hands on this fortune while the pope wanted to gain control of the
secret documents that they had smuggled out of the holy lands. These documents were
said to contain spiritually important numbers that were believed to facilitate God’s
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In his Book Dr Horowitz claims that Mr. Puleo was divinely guided to learn about
Pythagorean mathematics and numerology and that this led him to discover that that
within the book of Numbers were six repeated verses that seemed to make no sense at
all but when he used the Pythagorean method of number reduction on the verse
numbers they revealed six three digit numbers that he believes are the frequencies that
were part of 152 Gregorian chants that were banned by the catholic church nearly a
thousand years ago. According to Professor Willi Apel, "The origin of what is now called
Solfeggio arose from a Mediaeval hymn to John the Baptist which has this peculiarity
that the first six lines of the music commenced respectively on the first six successive
notes of the scale, and thus the first syllable of each line was sung to a note one degree
higher than the first syllable of the line that preceded it. By degrees these syllables
became associated and identified with their respective notes and as each syllable
ended in a vowel, they were found to be peculiarity adapted for vocal use. Hence "Ut"
was artificially replaced by "Do." Guido of Arezzo was the first to adopt them in the 11th
century, and Le Marie, a French musician of the 17th century added "Si" for the seventh
note of the scale, in order to complete the series." (Hulse, Soma Energetics) The
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your deeds, wash the guilt from their polluted lips, Saint
John.
Joseph Puleo found that hidden entries in Webster’s Dictionary and the Original Greek
FA – 639 Hz – Connecting/Relationships
(Horowitz 1999)
Joseph Puleo suggests that these six tones may relate to the story of the destruction by
sound of the walls of Jericho in six days before they fell on the seventh day to the
clapping and cheering of the crowds and the account in genesis that god created the
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universe in six days before resting on the seventh. He also points out that the MI-ra
gestorum (Miracle) note has the exact same frequency of 528 Hz that genetic
Part of the reason that the solfeggio frequencies were lost is due to the change from just
intonation to the 12 tone equal temperament that has become standard practice for the
last 200 years due to a need for conformity between various instruments. The main
culprits being the piano and harpsichord that prior to the introduction of equal
temperament would have required completely retuning in order to play in different keys.
The ancient method of Just Intonation featured pure intervals between every note that
were mathematically related by ratios of small whole numbers leading to a much purer
sound. According to Puleo and Horowitz the vibrational limits of modern music created
using the 12 tone scale creates “situations such as "boxed-in thinking," stuffed and
suppressed emotions; and fear-based " lack" consciousness—all of which then tend to manifest
into physical symptoms of dis-ease." In contrast to the expanded creative ability, holistic health
and easier problem solving stimulated by the ancient solfeggio scale. (Horowitz 1999)
Many of the world’s greatest composers may have used this information to create their
and would have had advanced knowledge of the solfeggio frequencies. He was an
important influence on Haydn who wrote a lot of masses that were banned by Pope
Pius X for being “Scandalously gay”, though it seems far more likely that they were
banned for their powerful spiritual mathematics. Bach was known for using numerology
in his works and was a strong influence on Haydn as well as Beethoven, who was
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taught by Haydn and whose best friend was a mathematician. The application of this
knowledge is not just restricted to music but can be applied to all the arts. One person
Chapter 4
In his follow up to healing codes; Love – The Real Da Vinci Code Dr Horowitz explains
of the sounds involved. He states that “Each letter of the alphabet carries a certain
for each letter. So there is an alpha-numeric, that is, letter/number basis for all
languages and verbal communications that your brain interprets for better or worse.”
In his book he shows how ancient languages such as Hebrew and Sanskrit were
gives lots of examples of how many of the words used in the bible give significantly
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relevant numbers when you calculate their alpha numeric equivalent. Words such as
God, Faith and Trust all total 8, which is the number for divinity and infinity. When you
add all the numbers from 1 to 9 together you get 9 which symbolizes spiritual evolution
and completion. The information given is far too complex and involved for the scope of
this paper but suffice to say that after reading Love – the Real Da-Vinci Code it is hard
The biggest claim of Dr Horowitz’s latest book is that the English language is actually
designed to repress the spiritual evolution and creative abilities of the masses by being
a reversal of the alpha-numeric qualities of the ancient languages. When the Levi
priests wrote the first books of the bible around the time of Moses they did so using the
creative spiritual knowledge that had been passed down to them from the Egyptians
who had inherited it from the Babylonians who had in turn received it from the
Sumerians. Messianic Jew, Horowitz claims that when his Levitical ancestors had
translated the original torah into Greek they decided to encode the Book of Numbers
with the frequencies for the original musical scale. During the Anglo Saxon times the
ruling elite developed the vibrationally dissonant and mathematically reversed English
language which was cemented with the creation of the King James Bible that became
the standard for modern English. He explains that this was done in order to manipulate
the population and keep them ignorant as well as keeping the information safe until
such time that civilization could evolve to the stage where this information could be
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Leonardo Da-Vinci lived around the time that the English language was being
developed and was well aware of the knowledge of the alpha-numeric properties of
ancient languages after studying the teachings of Plato, Vitruvius and Pythagoras.
According to Dr Horowitz he was aware of how the reversed English language effected
brain function and developed the ability to read and write backwards as a way to
enhance his creative abilities. Many people believe that he wrote all his manuscripts
intelligent as Da-Vinci would have been able to come up with a much more complex and
unbreakable code if he had wished to and he would have known that anyone intelligent
enough to be trying to read his manuscripts would have been able to see through his
Two pioneering scientist who were well aware of this ancient knowledge during the late
1800s were Nikola Tesla and John Keely, who both claimed to have achieved such
discoveries as acoustic levitation or antigravity and free energy. Both Keely and Tesla
were obsessed with the Pythagorean belief that the numbers 3, 6 and 9 were extremely powerful.
Tesla would only stay in rooms where the number was divisible by three and would always insist
that his toast was cut into 9 pieces. Nikola Tesla is considered to be the single most important
inventor of our times and his discovery of AC electricity has led to development of virtually
every electrical device available today. He obtained over 300 patents for his inventions that
included x rays, radio broadcasting, remote control, robotics, and even a particle beam weapon
that he referred to as a ‘death ray’. John Keely expanded the Pythagorean knowledge that
realms of anti gravity and the separation of hydrogen and oxygen in water. In 1874 he
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demonstrated his ‘etheric generator’ which used acoustic vibration to produce hydrogen
compound elements, whether gaseous or solid, a stream of vibratory antagonistic thirds, sixths,
or ninths, on their chord mass will compel progressive subdivisions. In the disintegration of
water the instrument is set on thirds, sixths, and ninths, to get the best effects." (Horowitz 1999).
Chapter 5
On the 8th of July 1680, polymath, architect and philosopher, Robert Hooke discovered
that it was possible to view patterns of vibration on a glass plate by covering it with flour
http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/cymatics-to-crisis-mapping/
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This technique was expanded by German musician and physicist Ernst Florens
Friedrich Chladni who published his findings in his 1787 book Entdeckungen über die
Theorie des Klanges (Discoveries in the Theory of Sound) and these methods of
viewing vibrations are nowadays referred to as ‘Chladni Plates’. His studies led to the
formation of ‘Chladni’s Law’, which is an equation that can be used to describe the
vibrations of various objects. The techniques he discovered are commonly used in the
design and manufacture of various acoustic instruments. His work was continued by the
German physicist and musician Hans Jenny who developed the science of “Cymatics”.
As well as using powders, he also experimented with liquids and published his findings
in his 1967 book Cymatics: the Study of Wave Phenomena, followed by Part 2 in 1972.
Jenny puts forward the idea that much of the symmetrical forms that we see in nature
may have taken shape through the influence of vibration and that this shows us that
sound may well be the creating force behind everything in the universe. One of his
discoveries that adds weight to the idea that language and mathematics are linked is
that when the sounds of the vowels of the Hebrew language were applied to a flat plate
covered in fine grains, the patterns that formed were the same as the written symbols
for those vowels. Another author who also offers evidence for a numerical basis for the
Catching Up With Ancient Knowledge he puts forward a very convincing theory that that
the Sumerian cuneiform writing that consists of hundreds of symbols, was developed
using a method of joining points together according to certain criteria to obtain different
graph patterns.
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In April 2007 father and son Tommy and Stuart Mitchell claimed to have found Chladni
figures carved into the stone blocks in the roof of Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. Made
famous by Dan Brown’s novel “The Da Vinci Code” it has often been speculated that it
is the hiding place of such artifacts as the ark of the covenant and the holy grail and
many believe that it was built by the knights templar to encode some kind of secret
knowledge. Although the descendants of the chapel’s builder William St Clair (a grand
master of the Scottish stone masons) deny all this, there is no getting away from the
fact that the chapel is full of Masonic symbolism. The 213 carved stone cubes that
adorn the ceiling all have different patterns that the Mitchells have de-coded to create a
piece of music entitled “The Rosslyn Motet” which was performed in the chapel in May
2007. Stuart Mitchell claims that the first interval encoded in the ceiling is an augmented
fourth, otherwise known as the devils interval, which was banned by the church and he
believes that St Clair may have put it there as a way to secretly challenge the authority
of the church. Could it be that the frequencies encoded in the roof of Rosslyn chapel are
those very same solfeggio frequencies that Joseph Puleo claims to have discovered
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It is also interesting to note that the patterns witnessed in cymatics also bear a striking
similarity to the mandalas used for meditation in Hinduism and Buddhism and even
some of the patterns that are seen in crop circles. In “Secrets in the Fields: The Science
and Mysticism of Crop Circles” author Fred Silva suggests the possibility than an
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Cymatics gives us an extraordinary insight into the ability of sound to affect physical
matter, something that is of great interest to those studying quantum mechanics. The
field of quantum physics is incredibly impossible to define and many scientists are
continuously debating over possible definitions, but suffice to say that it involves the
study of the behavior of energy and matter at a subatomic level, and has made some
important discoveries that tell us that physical matter can behave differently depending
on whether it is being observed and that the observer can change physical reality with
their intentions. This opens up a whole new world of possibilities and brings an air of
believability to the idea that human beings may possess untold psychic abilities.
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that when water is frozen and then photographed with a microscope the crystalline
structure of the water can vary greatly depending on a variety of contributing factors.
Pure water from a mountain stream was found to have an ordered geometric shape
compared to polluted water that appeared to have a distorted and random structure.
When he exposed water to different stimulus such as words or music he found that he
could affect the structure of the water crystals simply by projecting different intentions at
the water. When words were taped to a bottle overnight the resulting water crystals
revealed some astonishing behavior. When phrases such as “you make me sick, I will
kill you” or “Adolph Hitler” were used, the water crystals were random and ugly, whereas
phrases such as “thank you”, “love” and “Mother Teresa” all produced beautiful 6 sided
crystals!
The number 6 has always been thought of in numerology as signifying perfection and
can be seen all through nature from quartz crystals to the use of hexagons in beehives
as a means of gaining the most efficient use of space with the minimum materials.
Heavy Metal Music You Make Me Sick, I Will Kill You Adolph Hitler
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His experiments received worldwide exposure when they were featured in the 2004
award winning documentary what the *$%! Do we know!?. After some criticism of his
methods in 2006, Mr Emoto published a paper in the Journal of Science and Healing
describing a double blind test which showed that 2000 people in Tokyo were able to
intentions. When we consider that the human body is made up of around 70% water it
gives enormous weight to the claims made by healers of every kind. It is worth noting
here that in Genesis Revisited Zecharia Sitchin explains how the Sumerians had
advanced knowledge of the existence of water on a large number of the planets in our
solar system and how the findings of recent efforts in space exploration have started to
Chapter 6
Time to Retune?
The modern tuning used by musicians all over the world is that of A440hz .This was
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researchers this was on the suggestion of Nazi party spokesman Joseph Goebbels
whilst others claim that it was either Bach or the Catholic Church. Over 20,000
musicians in France petitioned against it, but by 1955 they had codified it as the
international standard. In April 2008 Dutch journalist Richard Huisken founded the ‘back
to 432Hz’ committee, claiming that the original 432Hz tuning that was used in ancient
cultures and is found on antique instruments like the Stradivarius violin is the natural
musical pitch of the universe. According to Huisken, music tuned to 432 Hz is softer and
brighter, giving greater clarity and is easier on the ears. It is also claimed that the 440
Hz frequency affects the third eye or thinking chakra, whereas 432 Hz affects the heart
chakra. Many musicians have reported positive effects from re-tuning to 432 Hz, such
as better audience response and an easier more laid back feel to their performances.
According to Brian T Collins “432hz vibrates on the principals of the golden mean PHI
and unifies the properties of light, time, space, matter, gravity and magnetism with
I found a comment on an internet forum claiming that when the technique of cymatics is
interference with no sympathetic vibrations, whereas 432 Hz yields a perfect circle with
a dot in the middle. This symbol, otherwise known as the circumpunct is one that was
used in many ancient cultures to represent such things as Ra or the sun god, divine
order, gold or even a stylized version of the atom for hydrogen (“hydrogen is the lightest
element. It is by far the most abundant element in the universe and makes up about
90% of the universe by weight. Hydrogen as water (H 2O) is absolutely essential to life
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Unfortunately, there appears to be very little evidence to substantiate this claim apart
from one video I found online that clearly shows the formation of the circumpunct on a
chladni plate in response to the 432 Hz frequency being played at various octaves.
(http://radicalfilms.co.uk/2007/12/26/a-432hz-vs-a-440hz-a-sonic-experiment-
fascinating/)
Although he is extremely good at uncovering conspiracies and getting them into the
eyes of the public, Dr Horowitz is the first to admit that he knows very little about music
theory and has started to work with musicians in order to work out how best to use
these ancient frequencies, including professional sound engineer Michael Walton who
used a set of tuning forks manufactured to the precise frequencies of the original
solfeggio scale and a Korg Oasys synthesizer to build a musical scale based around the
organizations urging people to tune their instruments to 528 Hz and has spurred an
annual concert entitled Live H20, involving over 70 worldwide venues and a live internet
broadcast, in which people all over the world are encouraged to sing or play music
based on the 528 Hz frequency in order to promote healing by focusing the ‘frequency
Unfortunately there appear to be some fundamental flaws in his claims. On the Live H20
website he states “modern standard tuning based on "A=440Hz" has come under
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human spirit according to recent discoveries in sound science and natural healing.
Tuning instruments to A=440 frequency stimulates the head, the intellect, but blocks the
heart and intuition. A=440Hz generally produces increased anxiety in performers and
listeners, while 528Hz tuning produces greater relaxation and creative self expression.”
to A=444Hz but he is basing his claims on calculations made using the equal
temperament system which has only been known to exist since about the 16 th century.
Surely if he wants people to revert to the older system of tuning then he should also be
advocating a return to just intonation, which gives much more harmonious music due to
it’s purer intervals that are derived from whole number ratios. This is where his theory
starts to come unstuck as a simple calculation reveals that with just intonation 528 Hz is
actually a perfect minor third of 440 Hz! He has also put forward what he calls the
‘Perfect Circle of Sound’ based on the solfeggio frequencies plus three more numbers
that he came up with by rearranging the order of 3 of the original numbers, and has
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http://web.mac.com/len15/LOVE528/HOME.html
Unfortunately I was disappointed to find that when I attempted to produce my own scale
featuring these frequencies I found that none of the frequencies in the scale had any
harmonic relationship with any of the others according to the Pythagorean ratios of just
intonation. I had wanted to try and create my own music using these frequencies but
now found that in order to use them I would have to create a different scale for each
frequency. To use more than one of these frequencies in the same piece of music
would go against the basic principles of music theory and would certainly not be
“ancient musical scale” is misleading, although he has admitted on one of his websites
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In the article “Synthesizer Re-tuning to the Perfect Circle of Sound™” that he produced
with Michael Walton he claims that they devised a central harmonic triad of 285 Hz, 528
Hz and 852 Hz to be used for chakra tuning. I found that the ratio between 285 and 528
is 95:176 and the ratio between 528 and 852 is 44:71. This is hardly what you could call
harmonic. Dr Horowitz also makes the same claims about the 528 Hz frequency that
Brian Collins makes about 432 Hz. One of his websites features an article by Vic
Showell that is full of all sorts of impossibly complicated calculations and contrived
connections that apparently show that the solfeggio is mathematically related to pi, phi
and the Fibonacci series. I found that the ratio linking 432 Hz and 528 Hz is 9:11 or
27:33, which is similar to but not the same as the ratio of a minor third which is 27:32. I
was unable to find any references to the 432 Hz frequency in any of Dr Horowitz’s
publications.
Although there have now been numerous books and thousands of websites published
based on this information there is very little information or advice for musicians on how
best to use the solfeggio scale, a thorough search of all the literature available only
reveals more people asking the same unanswered questions. Many of the claims made
of the different qualities of these tunings are based on theories and there appears to be
very little direct evidence to prove that these frequencies have a positive effect on those
that hear them. Many of the websites feature quotes from people saying that they can
tell the difference between the tunings but it is impossible to gauge how much of their
experience is psychological, due to the fact that they were told that the music they were
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A lot of the information that I have found has been embroidered with all sorts of
unsubstantiated claims and there are thousands of websites offering everything from
CDs of music created from the solfeggio tones to devices designed to use healing
frequencies to restore the electromagnetic purity of drinking water, but it does appear
that there is some truth to the idea that sound has extraordinary healing qualities. It is
hard to distinguish the real science from the pseudo science of those that simply want to
believe but it seems highly likely that the discoveries being made by the quantum
physicists and the huge amount of interest that has been generated by the experiments
of Masaru Emoto may be poised to change the way that we approach the creation of
music.
All that remains now is for those in the music industry to wake up to the responsibility
that the music they are producing may have a profound effect on us. Although music is
all about free expression, perhaps there are some types of music that should be
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