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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: What is perfect pitch?
Message-ID: <394@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 00:16:39 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <128650@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> briang@sun.UUCP (Brian Gordon) writes:
>We moderns (over the last few hundred years) have become used to the
>deliberate mistunings of important intervals in common keys as "right", but
>really notice the difference in intervals in less common keys -- the ratio of
>a sixth in the key of C is really quite different that the ratio for that
>interval in C# on a piano.  A common perception is that the sharp keys are
>"brighter" and the flat keys are "mellower".

I thought a piano was equal-tempered.  So a sixth was always the same
regardless of what key you were in.  (Your explanation makes a lot
of sense though).

-- 
Scott Amspoker
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM
(505) 345-5232
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