kernewegor
Bon vivant, raconteur and twit
If you want to be really logical, do like a friend of mine and divide the octave in 6 equal steps. His piano (he could not patent it, because the original idea dates back to 16th century) has a white key followed by a black key. All intervals are simpler, as is the system (common in computer music) of dividing the octave in 12 steps. In the good old days we used to say that a third is "5 strings", as is a diminished fourth, and a plus-that-augmented second.
You just need to learn two fingerings and you have all the major scales (a mark is needed on C).
Quite useless in performing western music.
Some time ago I got irritated that medieval organ and other keyboard makers couldn't be bothered to put a complete set of black notes on their instruments, giving birth to the ludicrously complicated notation system used in (most) Western music (Highland pipers, I believe, used at one time to use something which looked like Arabic written by a drunk...)
So I decided to rename all the notes of the octave (ABCDEFGHIJKL) and drew up a stave which had more lines and enabled music to be written without the need for signs for sharps and flats....
I never got around to modifying a piano and accidentally used my notes (in which I wrote out a few tunes in the system) to light the fire.
The fire caught all right, but I don't suppose the idea would have caught on...
PS
In the USA a 757ml bottle of spirits is known as a 'fifth'....
.....and talking about fifths, Eddie Condon once said "Beboppers flatten their fifths. We drink ours."
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