Why is the number of black keys less?

[debra1rlo]

I think it's racism.

[Chris Rock]Because the MAN don't want us to have the same amount of keys as him[/Chris Rock]

[Ogg Vorbis]

Because it is layed out for the major scale of C (Ionian mode) and not for hexatonic (augmented).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexatonic_scale

This is greek for me.

Well, I'll spell it out for you. Jeesh, some people...Clearly the hypodonic exoskelatenous profile of the scalar elements form a viscuous relationship between the octaguloreous intervals that even their own overtones cannot escape the interdiatonic hypoplasia. It stands to reason, therefore the the black keys follow a pentafractal pattern.

[egbert]

Because it is layed out for the major scale of C (Ionian mode) and not for hexatonic (augmented).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexatonic_scale

The piano is built this way (with the white keys playing a major scale rather than a whole-tone or hexaphonic scale) to protect us from inadvertently being taken backward in time every time someone plays a glissando up the piano keys - particularly if the gliss is slow and with the pedal down.

Should anyone do this - even by accident - everything would suddenly go all wavy and we would find ourselves back at some significant moment in the past.

[mistertoast]

To maximize the use of elephant tusks.

[egbert]

To maximize the use of elephant tusks.

Not a fiendish plot effort to bring ebony exporters to their knees? Not only are their fewer of them - they are smaller too!

[djsubject]

because 12 is a odd number

[robogone]

Because if the gaps weren't there, lead singers would have nowhere to put their beer bottles down during gigs?

[Optomadic]

What means this ?

[JediMind]

I think it's racism.

Freaking Chinese...

[markkooper]

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[Optomadic]

Ohhh b4 the lock

[robogone]

What means this ?

Affirmative action?

[DeepFiber]

Because it is layed out for the major scale of C (Ionian mode) and not for hexatonic (augmented).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexatonic_scale

This is greek for me.

Well, I'll spell it out for you. Jeesh, some people...Clearly the hypodonic exoskelatenous profile of the scalar elements form a viscuous relationship between the octaguloreous intervals that even their own overtones cannot escape the interdiatonic hypoplasia. It stands to reason, therefore the the black keys follow a pentafractal pattern.

It all makes sense now..

[dark_virus]

What means this ?

Affirmative action?

[Optomadic]

What means this ?

Affirmative action?

More like republican fear tactics