The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109280 Message #2283559
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
09-Mar-08 - 08:56 AM
Thread Name: How much difference does the Key make?
Subject: RE: How much difference does the Key make?
"it depends, I think, on whether you're using a fixed-pitch instrument such as a piano or a concertina, or one that you can tune as you play"
This only partly negates my answer of 09 Mar 08 - 08:42 AM - "all keys in 'modern 12 tone chromatic tempered tuning' are equivalent" - this holds for the 'fixed tuning instruments - keyboards, etc. It DOES NOT HOLD for VOICE, and ANY instrument that you can 'play in' such as almost ANY reed wind instrument, and and stringed instrument without frets, or a manually retunable on the fly percussion instrument like a 'talking drum'. Such instruments (including voice) TEND to drift into nearer 'just tuning'... that's life!