Re: OT: high-precision tuner app

[Jacques Menu Muzhic]

> Le 26 mai 2016 à 09:57, Michael Hendry <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> 
> I seem to have struck an interesting chord, here!
> 
> Another phenomenon about which I have doubts involves people who claim that 
> when they hear music in “sharp” keys (e.g. G, D, A, E) their experience is of 
> brightness, while the flat keys make for a more sombre sound. I’ve even heard 
> in a radio interview that this applies to F# and Gb (the one bright, the 
> other dull).
> 
> Michael (lighting blue touch-paper and retiring to a safe distance).

My bassoon teacher told me the same, and in particular that D major is the 
brightest key on our instrument (440). So I asked whether it’s E flat major on 
the baroque instrument (415).

And the answer is no, it’s D major too, because that phenomenon is relative to 
the instrument size, not absolute.

JM