William J. Karzas wrote:

>Ian Crisp suggested that it would be more logical to name keys with "A"
>being given to what we call "C" since it is the first note of the
>all-white-key major scale on the piano.

I was afraid to suggest that A may have been named for the first note on
the piano keyboard.  Since we had scales before we had piano keyboards that
reasoning seems circular.  Do earlier keyboard instruments all have the
same lowest note? And is it an A?

Walter Meyer