From Peter Forrest Sent Tue, Jan 16th 2018, 10:26
From Peter Forrest Sent Tue, Jan 16th 2018, 10:26
So... for instance with Hammonds, they started C-C (2x 5 octaves) = because they were basically church / classical instruments.. but when = they started making organs for the home, the shorter-keyboard spinets = started at F. Personally I always found keyboards with an exact number of octaves = annoying - the extra note on, eg, a 61-note keyboard to make it C-C is = very useful. (That's a drawback with the Korg Polyphonic ensembles = etc., where the technology makes it expensive to have an extra note.) And starting at F so that you can play the subdominant of C as Florian = says is dead useful for blues and blues-influenced music types. =20 Peter -----Original Message----- From: Florian Anwander [mailto:xxxxxxxxx@xxxx-xxxxxx.xx]=20 Sent: 16 January 2018 09:42 To: 'analogueheaven' Subject: Re: [AH] Arturia announces MiniBrute 2 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