[Dixielandjazz] Bb is the key of life

[lswain at penrose.com]

On 19 Sep 2003 at 9:37, Andy.Ling at Quantel.Com wrote:

Subject:        	[Dixielandjazz] Bb is the key of life

> It's official. Forget all those horrible sharp keys used
> by others. The Jazz key of Bb is what nature uses. A recent
> report states :-
> 
> Astronomers have found, for the first time, sound waves 
> from a super-massive black hole. The "note", pitched at
> B flat and fifty seven octaves below middle C, is the 
> deepest ever detected from any object in the Universe. 
> And the tremendous amounts of energy carried by these 
> sound waves may solve a long-standing problem in astrophysics.
> 
> You'd need one enormous tuba to get down that low though.
> 
> For those interested, there is more info at :-
> 
> http://www.nasa.gov/lb/home/hqnews/2003/sep/HQ_03284_Chandra_Hears.htm
> l

Yeah, right.  But we pianner players know that the real reason Bb is 
preferred is because all those trumpet, clarinet, tenor sax, etc., 
players get to play in C.

Larry Swain



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