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Learning to play a piano in any key is like learning 12 instruments. With an ebony after each ivory, your span would be increased by a whole tone and it would be like learning only 2 instruments.
Why are there 12 tones in an octave?
http://www.skytopia.../project/scale.html
Good starting place. [csea, Dec 05 2009]
Musimathics
http://www.musimathics.com/
Also a good read [csea, Dec 05 2009]
6/6 cross strung harp
http://www.michigan...2967893/7394042.htm
Well baked in harp form, fairly widely used in the USA, has acknowledged advantages and disadvantages over the traditional 5/7 setup. [pocmloc, Dec 05 2009]
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'twould be awkward to adjust to. |
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[tonybe], could you elaborate? (Your whole thesis is one paragraph.) |
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So, six white keys, and six black keys per octave? I trust you do understand the ancient Greek notion of Phi (The Golden Ratio)? That would leave 16 as the number of tones between octaves without it, and: one HUGE panano. |
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No, Mr. Peyote, there would still be 12 notes per octave. |
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Worth the price of admission: csea's links. Thank you. |
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As someone who is learning the paino, this seems
reasonable (and has probably been proposed many times
before). It would make the keyboard much easier to
transpose (as pointed out) and, incidentally, would make
it smaller (since the two "gaps" between B and C, and
between E and F, would be occupied by a black key). |
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It would be less good for fairly simple music, which tends
to focus on the white notes only, with the blacks used for
the occasional accent; it would be very difficult to write a
piece for the white notes only, though perhaps this
wouldn't matter. |
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On the other hand, there are so many absurdities in
musical instruments and musical notation that one really
doesn't know how to begin. I mean, have you seen how
people *write* the stuff? |
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Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do... |
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Sound familier... These are the white keys on the keyboard (in the key of C). |
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I see your argument tonybe... you would only have to learn the scale twice (black key "Do" or white key "Do"). But I like to have a built in major scale, even if it only works for one key. |
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There would be the practical difficulty of locating a particular note on this uniform sequence of white and black keys. Perhaps this could be solved by colouring every seventh 'white' key? |
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And incidentally, has anyone noticed this strange congruence? |
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Map the months of the year on to the piano keyboard (the old-fashioned, soon to be obsolete variety, that is) in ascending sequence, such that January maps to F. |
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Now observe: all the months with 31 days fall on white notes, and all the others on black. How odd. |
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