Dave Muth

@JeremyMallin@autistics.life A modern story of old times (all these facts are approximations): Piano white keys play tones called "naturals". They play the original tones in Western music, back to Ancient Greece. Tones played by the black piano keys were added piecemeal for various reasons. Those tones weren't used much for millenia, so keys to produce those tones were often colored (and/or shaped) differently to distinguish them. It took thousands of years to standardize our modern tunings. #Musicology #Piano #History

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@JeremyMallin@autistics.life There are tons of stories explaining why the modern piano keyboard has the (current) odd looking arrangement of black and white keys. It can be difficult to tell truth from shinola. Short, fairly true: The modern piano keyboard is based on the interval patterns of the diatonic scale. Any sequence of seven successive white keys plays a diatonic scale. One popular idea is that the white notes from A through G is the scale of A minor (basically), very popular since Middle Ages. I'll post more soon. This one is from 1890. Here's a picture showing that the left-right symmetry of the keyboard pattern is centered around the "D" key. (!) #Music #History #Piano

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