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Re: Transposed Chord name "F flat"
From: |
Graham Percival |
Subject: |
Re: Transposed Chord name "F flat" |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:58:30 -0800 |
On 2-Nov-04, at 4:18 PM, Benjamin Esham wrote:
On Nov 2, 2004, at 6:20 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
Bear in mind, E and F-flat aren't actually the same note. Not only
are they
different points on the key scale, but in a properly tuned scale they
aren't
even the same frequency! Very close, but not the same.
Interesting... this flies in the face of everything I've ever been
taught :-D
In equal temperament -- aka "standard piano tuning" -- they're the same
note.
Using pythagorean or just intonation, they're different.
I did a quick google for those terms, and these pages look promising:
http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m11639/latest/
http://www.midicode.com/tunings/index.shtml
I'm sure you could find many more, though.
Cheers,
- Graham