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Originally posted by HomerMcvie
Well, just like our "discussion" over Save Me a Place, it's not really in Db. Again, it's Lindsey playing with the tape speed. It's somewhere in between C and Db. As close as my ears can get it in one pass, it's 34 cents sharp of C, and 57 cents flat of Db, so it's actually closer to C.  And yes, I realize that's only 91 cents, whereas in theory it should be 100. Try playing along on a non retunable instrument (Hammond organ, for example), and you find yourself wanting to break whatever fingers Lindsey changes the tape speed with.
Ever so anal retentively yours, Homie
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Anal is good, Homer, when you're hammering out important Fleetwood Mac data like this. Maybe it's safest to put it this way: Christine is
playing the piano in Db. Once her piano tracks pass out of her hands & into the hands of LB & his engineers, I dare not vouch for the key. Lindsey's a madman, as we all know, with his penchant for toying with pitch.
For those of you who want to hear a more specifically Db performance, I recommend the snippet of Mac doing it live during a 1982 rehearsal on the "Missing Links" set of underground demos.