Re: how much do you care about your music being in strict equal temperment keys?

[Chris Smart <chris_s@sympatico.ca>]

Well, I'm going to be the exception here it sounds like, and say 
that equal temperament is very important to me! The more I play 
music (guitar) the more my perfect pitch gets annoying. For 
example, I have real difficulties learning a tune in one key, then 
transposing it to another, because I have learned the "pitches" 
involved and expect to hear them, for example, at the start of the 
melody.

I would actually be very interested in hearing, say, the Bach 
well-tempered clavier pieces as they were intended, on a 
well-tempered instrument.

Another random musing: Although all keys are supposed to be equal 
in equal temperament, I still have my favorites... I can only think 
that this is because of emotional attachments to songs that are in 
these keys, than because of some emotive effect particular to the 
key.  Of course, D minor is the saddest of all keys ... :)

Chris


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