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Re:Music theory for nerds by coldtea on Monday September 19, 2016 @07:27AM (#12530464)
>Why is this at the top of HN?

Because it was voted to the top after being deemed interesting by HN users. Social boormarking website et al.

>Without key signatures, music in any major scale other than C would be very confusing as the regular scale notes would be marked with accidentals.

That's assuming otherwise keeping the same notation, which is totally against the point of the author.

Re:Music theory for nerds by arnarbi on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @04:31PM (#12543104)
> Because it was voted to the top after being deemed interesting by HN users.

Maybe I worded my actual thought poorly: Why do HN users deem this interesting? It's an honest question, not rhetorical.