Never Make Me Cry key signature

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

I understand Christine wanting to avoid using the black keys (I'm not much of a pianist myself but have often soothed a bad day with an F-major Songbird before bed) but even back in the 70s, would it not have been possible to just get the keyboard to transpose the keys up a semitone by pressing a button or two. Then, you can physically play in C, but it will sound as C#/Dflat. It's pretty standard now.

Yes, to all of this.

[deribish]

They could have also sped up the tapes just enough to take the song to c#... that's done often.

[secret love]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Yes, to all of this.

But F major DOES have accidentals (black keys) -- it has a B flat. And with a digital piano, yes, you can absolutely transpose with a button or two.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by secret love

But F major DOES have accidentals (black keys) -- it has a B flat. And with a digital piano, yes, you can absolutely transpose with a button or two.

No, I think Mrs.Scarrott was affirming that Christine liked key signatures with root notes on white keys, such as F. She wrote a lot in D and E as well, and both of those have accidentals (two for D, four for E) but as long as the root note was on a white key, she was happy.