{"items": [{"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1388794230111", "service": "gp", "text": "But flat keys can be awesome!", "timestamp": 1388794230}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1388804561908", "service": "gp", "text": "@Todd\n\u00a0What's special about flat keys? \u00a0D and E are close enough that I don't generally find myself wishing I could play in a key halfway between them.", "timestamp": 1388804561}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1388825759294", "service": "gp", "text": "Different emotional, um, stuff? I don't remember enough music theory to really know. In fact, I may have been getting mixed up between flat keys and minor keys.", "timestamp": 1388825759}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1388841728087", "service": "gp", "text": "@Todd\n\u00a0In the older style of tuning each key had it's own sound because the intervals were slightly different. \u00a0Different keys were supposed to have different emotions:\u00a0\nhttp://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/courses/keys.html\n \u00a0This is called \"well tempering\": each key is playable but unique.\n<br>\n<br>\nIn modern tuning, \"equal tempering\", each key has exactly the same ratios as every other, which means the only difference is some are higher or lower.\n<br>\n<br>\nPeople are still taught the emotional aspects of keys, but it's misleading in that it basically doesn't apply to any modern music.", "timestamp": 1388841728}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1388866713851", "service": "gp", "text": "Alright, I was definitely thinking of minor keys, then.", "timestamp": 1388866713}]}