[78-L] Choral key question

[Jeff Sultanof]

Dance or big bands during the thirties and forties used to play in Ab
and Db all the time. In fact, flat keys were preferred back then.

Jeff Sultanof

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 3:29 PM, David Lewis <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I also vote for A flat. While you'll never find a dance band playing in that key -- too weird --for a piano player it falls pretty easily under the fingers, like Valerie said, owing to all of the black keys. And singers generally don't have an issue with it.
>
> Uncle Dave Lewis
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