Re: OT: high-precision tuner app

[mskala]

On Thu, 26 May 2016, Michael Hendry wrote:
> 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

It seems like such a thing could easily become self-fulfilling, if a lot
of composers believe it and choose keys for their compositions according
to the mood they intend to create.  A listener who hears a lot of such
compositions and has any sensitivity at all to absolute pitch, might then
tend to automatically and unconsciously perceive such a mood difference
even in cases like the *same* composition played at two different
transpositions.

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