F# major

On Mon, 3 Aug 1998 aloe@rev.net wrote:
>> (nobody writes in F# around here.......)
>
> Interesting. In Grove's, Heinz Becker and Richard D. Green claim it was the
> only key in which Irving Berlin could play the piano.

Yep, and he had a piano with a transposing lever to turn F# into
whatever key he needed. Makes sense in a way; in that key (plus the
ones to either side) you only need to aim at the black keys, plus a
couple of extras.

--pH http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote
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