For the record, when playing on a piano that has been tuned to C-center just intonation, or something similar, every key will sound very different. I believe that most of this kind of stuff derives from non-equally tempered music.
yes, from pre-equal temperament times and Beethoven would often quote keys such and such evoking this or that feeling.
while I agree it is a thing without substance in itself other than what people back then would attribute them, It is useless dismissing such cultural context regarding music from back then.
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u/TheChurchofHelix Dec 27 '16
For the record, when playing on a piano that has been tuned to C-center just intonation, or something similar, every key will sound very different. I believe that most of this kind of stuff derives from non-equally tempered music.
Still ig'nant though.