Re: Transposed Chord name "F flat"

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, Matthias 
Neeracher <address@hidden> writes
> On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:27 AM, David Bobroff wrote:
>
> > I'm not a developer, but this looks right to me.  In your example you
> > have a chord which is a diminished step above the tonic of the key.
> > When you transpose this down one whole step it remains the same 
> > relative
> > to the key.
>
> Thanks for explaining this logic. My music theory is not overly sound, 
> so I'm perfectly willing to accept that there is a sound theoretical 
> justification for this. Nevertheless, I'd still argue that on a 
> practical level, "E" might be preferable here.

Bear in mind, E and F-flat aren't actually the same note. Not only are 
they different points on the key scale, but in a properly tuned scale 
they aren't even the same frequency! Very close, but not the same.

Cheers,
Wol
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