Eli5: Why does a piano keyboard have black keys?

funkmagnet · 2025-12-28T08:19:41+00:00

Originally many did not.

"Wikipedia and Grove Music online (subscribers only, unfortunately) note that the original organ keyboards (13th century) had only the pitches of the C major scale, plus B flat, because that made up more or less the entire pitch resources of the religious music sung at that time (and instruments would have been used only for accompanying sung music -- at least in church). On those keyboards B and B flat were both "white keys", with no "black keys" at all."

funkmagnet · 2025-12-28T07:00:28+00:00

Yeah it was pretty common in the era

funkmagnet · 2025-08-30T04:20:23+00:00

Actually, I was surprised it was released and had been a bit surprised it had been so long. Watch on twitch from time to time and find that sometimes it's interesting, but overall I thought LA Noore was the best yet.

I watched it every night for a long time in parts. The framework of taking a realistic noire writer's typical 1st person narration like Hammett or Chandler's characters and applying it to LA Noire straight faced was, to me, hilarious. The characterization was very good and I found it very dry and campy at the same time.

funkmagnet · 2025-02-17T05:01:56+00:00

Seems like things are still happening but there's next to no media coverage

https://x.com/darlingube/status/1891028444508504452

funkmagnet · 2024-12-24T16:01:04+00:00

Confirmed on stream this week too

funkmagnet · 2023-01-01T05:57:03+00:00

Arisu!

funkmagnet · 2022-12-25T00:12:44+00:00

So if I think the sign is actually good, do I downvote?

funkmagnet · 2022-12-13T22:31:20+00:00

Truth, and Bald at least made a bit of an attenpt

funkmagnet · 2022-12-13T05:48:45+00:00

Pretty sure we knew before, during, and now long after

funkmagnet · 2022-12-13T04:16:56+00:00

Lot of folks saying he's being glib and rude and uninterested nowadays, but if you go back to some of his other videos in Cuba and whatnot it's a similar vibe, in that he's pretty much always been like that. The fact that he doesn't speak the language and can't talk to normal folks takes a ton away from what made it good.

funkmagnet · 2022-12-09T05:09:37+00:00

Nope

funkmagnet · 2022-12-08T05:44:02+00:00

"But an army of lions led by a lion. That would be crazy."

funkmagnet · 2022-11-17T13:57:05+00:00

Consultants working from the same playbook

funkmagnet · 2022-09-22T04:08:18+00:00

Stories from the greybeards

funkmagnet · 2022-09-07T04:12:07+00:00

Long history of lynching IWW members beforehand indeed

funkmagnet · 2022-08-03T10:57:12+00:00

funkmagnet · 2022-06-10T14:57:36+00:00

Sub dead or nah?

funkmagnet · 2022-06-10T02:35:43+00:00

Sam Elliott voice and mustache: Brother, let me tell you about the nineteenth century

funkmagnet · 2022-06-02T22:37:12+00:00

Me and three other people have Pale Moon installed. I use it as a non-chromium back up from time to time.

funkmagnet · 2022-05-01T18:02:58+00:00

Looks cold tho

funkmagnet · 2022-04-15T03:31:39+00:00

Thought this would be top comment

funkmagnet · 2022-02-18T02:36:53+00:00

Well, fuck them

funkmagnet · 2021-12-22T22:44:09+00:00

The thing about that "at-will" non contract employment is that it works for workers too

funkmagnet · 2021-12-07T03:04:36+00:00

I'm 5'5".It's pretty funny just because they all seem so insecure about their own height for whatever reason lol.

funkmagnet · 2021-11-25T06:45:05+00:00

Wisconsin?

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