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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Tuning (e.g. pianos)
Message-ID: <11603@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 89 01:11:28 GMT
References: <406@quad.uucp>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <406@quad.uucp>, by dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg):
> 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? 

Perhaps. Don't worry about it. Could happen to anybody. (Never happened
to me, personally, though.)

> I thought that
> F#-minor was the relative minor of A-major

Correct.

> (C#-minor includes a D#), and also that A-major is a _major_
> sixth above the C-major.
> 

Right again. Your mind seems to be functioning quite normally.
Of course, C# is the relative minor of E, not A.

There may be something in that article that was correct, but if so,
I didn't find it.

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

I'll say!