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From: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Tuning (e.g. pianos)
Message-ID: <406@quad.uucp>
Date: 21 Dec 89 04:58:28 GMT
References: <129476@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <15132@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Organization: Quadric Systems, Richfield MN
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In article <15132@well.UUCP> rbp@well.UUCP (Bob Pasker) writes:
>There's a problem with talking about C vs. C# because C# is "naturally" a
>minor key, i.e. C#-minor is the relative minor of the key A-major and
>A-major is a minor sixth above the C-major.

Just a second... did I suddenly lose my mind?  I thought that
F#-minor was the relative minor of A-major (C#-minor includes a
D#), and also that A-major is a _major_ sixth above the C-major.

In any case, the rest of the article was quite thought-provoking.

-- 
David Sandberg             dts@quad.uucp or ..uunet!rosevax!sialis!quad!dts
"What's the difference between 12-bit and 16-bit?  A lot more than 4 bits!"