Piano Keys as Months

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:15:57 -0400

Noticed something at the piano today.

As a kid, I learned to map the months of the year onto my knuckles, whereby the peaks represent months with 31 days and the valleys are months with less.

It occured to me I could do the same thing at the keyboard: map the months onto the piano keys chromatically, starting at F. So:

Jan	F
Feb	F#
Mar	G
Apr	G#
May	A
Jun	A#
Jul	B
Aug	C
Sep	C#
Oct	D
Nov	D#
Dec	E

Now all the white keys have 31 days, while the black keys have less. Also makes month math super easy, given that I know my keyboard intervals pretty well. I could even remember my family’s birth months as a chord, or perhaps a melody to preserve birth ordering.

Piano on Ari Kast

Piano Keys as Months