The note A tuned to 440 Hz only became the norm for musical performance in 1939 after decades of international and interdisciplinary disputes. Fanny Gribenski retraces this rocky path.
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Gribenski, F. Plenty of pitches. Nat. Phys. 16, 232 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0707-1
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