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I remember, when I was a kid, that I had a toy piano where the notes C, D, E, etc. were labeled 1, 2, 3, etc. Later, I tried to get a computer to play a simple
by impendia 7y ago
I remember, when I was a kid, that I had a toy piano where the notes C, D, E, etc. were labeled 1, 2, 3, etc.
Later, I tried to get a computer to play a simple melody and assumed that 1=A, 2=B, etc. The result sounded wrong, and eventually by trial and error I figured out that if I put C# in place of C, then everything sounded good.
I asked my father why, and he gave me a version of "you'll understand when you're older". My father was a wonderful man, but this is still one of my sadder memories from childhood.
- darkerside 7y agoYou may have asked him at the worst possible time for him personally. Whyever he didn't explain it at the time, I'm sure it's nothing to do with his love for you.
- impendia 7y agoOh, no question about that. When I was a kid, I tended to assume that my parents always were available to drop what they're doing and engage with you. (And which, incidentally, is surely a reason why many parents are finding working from home during quarantine to be so difficult.)
- gowld 7y agoYour question may have touched a nerve, if he was getting older and no longer could see sharp.
- heretoo 7y agoOr he just wanted to be flat on the couch, without being disturbed.
- Hermandw 7y agoMaybe he was like me who had some degree of hearing loss when I grew older and could no longer hear C sharp.
- sullyj3 7y agomusical notes repeat once every doubling of frequencies, so there are many C#s spread throughout the range of human hearing. The only way someone could be unable to hear c# would be if they were unable to hear at all.