dll927
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Is it true that some keypoard players seem to prefer flats over sharps?
I once knew a church pianist (I was the organist) who always insited hat anything with more than two sharps be transposed down half a tone to flats. Since most hymns are fairly simple notation, it is not all that difficult to do, as most of the notes on paper remain the same.
I don't play any string insgument, or that matter any other, but I have sometimes wondered if sharps work out better on some other instruemnts.
Franck, for instance, was fond of sharps -- three, four, or five whenever he could. Is there something to the idea that sharps come across as more difficult than flats?
I once knew a church pianist (I was the organist) who always insited hat anything with more than two sharps be transposed down half a tone to flats. Since most hymns are fairly simple notation, it is not all that difficult to do, as most of the notes on paper remain the same.
I don't play any string insgument, or that matter any other, but I have sometimes wondered if sharps work out better on some other instruemnts.
Franck, for instance, was fond of sharps -- three, four, or five whenever he could. Is there something to the idea that sharps come across as more difficult than flats?