---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I have finally arrived at the age where I can admit there are things that= exist that I can't understand or give a scientific explanation. Key color= is one of them. I hear a difference in keys even in flawless ET and I= know lots of other people who hear color. I can't explain it, but I don't= pooh pooh everything I can't explain. While HTs have MORE key color (and= somewhat different key color) ET does too. I know some will claim that it= is just not ET or the dreaded RW, but..... Another, related item, is the effect of keys on pitch stability. In= college, I belonged to a choir that was called an a Cappella choir. While= we did use accompaniment for some music, most was a Cappella. Certain= keys would always lead us out of tune quickly and in others we stayed= amazingly in tune. F and G seemed quite unstable, but if we started in F#= the pitch would hold very well. B-flat was probably the worst, but= singing the same song in B would stay in tune well. Temperament had no= effect, because we got our starting pitch from a single note (always the= tonic) and sometimes from a pitch-pipe. I don't know what caused it. I= have no scientific explanation for it. I just observed it for 4 years in= choir. Key color, pitch stability, pitch recognition (a name I like much more than= "perfect" pitch) are all things I can't explain, but then there are lots= of things that I observe in this world that I can't explain or understand.= Isn't that part of what makes life fun? dave David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/93/a2/5f/13/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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