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coffeesp00ns  ·  3976 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fifty-Second Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

I totally agree that there's a difference between C# and Db, etc. As an orchestral musician and as a string player, that's my life blood. It's also why I love listening to string quartets, because they tend to tune this way (including "pure" fifths).

Unfortunately, when you come to a keyed, multi stringed instrument like a piano, or a harpsichord, or even a harp, the problem comes in either having to change the pitch of the string, or having so many strings that it becomes unwieldy. The other problem is that the notes all change again if you're in another key. Bb for example is different in A, or B, or C, or D, etc. Always very slightly, but because of its scale function and its function in its family of chords (Bb Major, G minor, Gb Major, Eb Major/minor, C Dom7th, and so on and so forth) it has to change to "fit" inside of its chord. So even having a Bb/A# split key isn't perfect (though it is closer!)





kleinbl00  ·  3976 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yay Midi. Any damn tuning you want, on the fly, whenever… and we still do everything in C major and D minor.

coffeesp00ns  ·  3976 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We're human. We like things that are similar to what we've heard before. It's comfortable.