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Thread #84304 Message #1559236
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
08-Sep-05 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: Irish music : why is it in D and G ?
Subject: RE: Irish music : why is it in D and G ?
Paul, I don't understand "each octave is split into 12 divisions, each frequency being the 12th root of two times the last one." Would you explain that further?
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I have two friends who are talented pianists. They had differing opinions about equal temperament. One, "A", said that equal temperament means that all keys sound the same. B said that they don't.
So B stepped into the kitchen, and A played the same musical phrase on the piano in different keys. B could tell when it was played on white keys and when on black keys. She says that the black keys chime more. I agree.