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Some producers also deliberately used the varispeed to change the pitch of the song as well
In the very old days people often tuned to the studio piano which could be wildly out of tune
Everything my originals bands recorded in the eighties was to tape, in the early nineties we started to have to use 8 track ADATS's synced to the 16 track which could often go badly wrong ..... nothing was concrete pitch wise until the advent of digital with the Mitsubishi and Sony digital machines which were still tape but fully digital ... then came Protools 24 etc and from then on loads of digital harddrive formats.
I have quite a few songs recorded in studios in the eighties and early nineties and the pitch is off concert on all of them
Just reading about No Suprises it seems they had a lot of problems recording it and the final version was actually the first take but then with the tempo changed which also affects the pitch ( I’m assuming recorded to tape) and part of a different session ( at a different studio) than most of the rest of the album.
I can remember using a 4 track to do the same trick, and getting exactly the same voicing
Eg
https://m.thomann.de/gb/thomann_glockenspiel_thtg25.htm?o=1&search=1510299768
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch
“Despite such confusion, A = 440 Hz is the only official standard and is widely used around the world. Many orchestras in the United Kingdomadhere to this standard as concert pitch.[15] In the United States some orchestras use A = 440 Hz, while others, such as the New York Philharmonic, use A = 442 Hz.[16] The latter is also often used as a tuning frequency in Europe,[3] especially in Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway and Switzerland.[17]Nearly all modern symphony orchestras in Germany and Austria and many in other countries in continental Europe (such as Russia, Sweden and Spain) tune to A = 443 Hz.[15][17]The Boston Symphony Orchestra tunes to A = 441 Hz.
In practice most orchestras tune to a note given out by the oboe, and most oboists use an electronic tuning device when playing the tuning note. Some orchestras tune using an electronic tone generator.[18] When playing with fixed-pitch instruments such as the piano, the orchestra will generally tune to them—a piano will normally have been tuned to the orchestra's normal pitch. Overall, it is thought that the general trend since the middle of the 20th century has been for standard pitch to rise, though it has been rising far more slowly than it has in the past. Some orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic now use a slightly lower pitch (443 Hz) than their highest previous standard (445 Hz).[3][19]”
Actually Street Spirit is one of two Radiohead songs I more or less like. (The other is Fake Plastic Trees.)
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He doesn't actually whine quite as gratingly on them as most of their other stuff.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein