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Re:Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory? by Yajirobe on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:27AM (#21824540)
What does this mean for a piano keyboard, for example? Is the fact that it's the same key related to the fact that a piano cannot be perfectly tuned?
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Re:Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory? by navane on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:55AM (#21824795)
Yes, and it means that songs actually sound different when played in different keys. It's not just a shift up or down, the intervals within the song shift, if only slightly.
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