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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.music,ba.music
Subject: Re: Tuning (e.g. pianos)
Message-ID: <11606@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 89 04:08:02 GMT
References: <15132@well.UUCP>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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Just in case we haven't thrashed this poor unfortunate posting enough,
notice that F# and Cb, (A.K.A. "B"), are adjacent in the cycle of fifths,
not "distant".


From article <15132@well.UUCP>, by rbp@well.UUCP (Bob Pasker):
> ...
> With well-tempered tuning, a harpsichordist coud play in distant keys, like
> F#, and Cb without "too much" dissonance. 
>