Why is there no black key on a keyboard in between the notes of E and F?
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Ah.. a bit of physics, a huge amount about human hearing and brains, and a lot of music theory. I’m coming at this from guitar so pardon me if I get this slightly wrong.
It might seem confusing, but an octave has 12 notes with a consistent difference in frequency between them. So each key on a piano is actually the next step (regardless of if its a black or white key).
A piano is setup in the key (or scale) of ‘C’ the white keys correspond to whole notes for that scale and and the black keys correspond to half notes. If you played in a different key (for example the key of ‘D’) the the whole notes and half notes could be a mix of white or black keys. But its always 8 whole notes and 4 half notes in a given octave, spaced the same way you see the black keys on a piano, just shifted by the key.
So that pattern on the piano keyboard is really more about how our ears and brains think certain notes sound next to each other.
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