From Florian Anwander Sent Tue, Jan 16th 2018, 09:41
From Florian Anwander Sent Tue, Jan 16th 2018, 09:41
Hi Peter Am 16.01.2018 um 10:30 schrieb Peter Forrest: > > In the old days, of course, it was pretty normal to start the keyboard > at F. > > Minimoog for instance! > I think this is a interesting under the aspect of the history of composition theory: The classic piano reaches down to A, the typical blues and rock keyboard (think of many Hammond organs) reaches to F. This might be because for the classic music the minor parrallel is more important than the subdominant. Classic music relies on having minor parrallel a-minor for base chord C-major, blues music relies on having the subdominant F-major for base chord on C. Florian -- http://www.florian-anwander.de