Question about enharmonic notes / scales

axxe at 22h17
31
Mar
2010
Question about enharmonic notes / scales

Just something I thought about...

Lets say: B major....It has 5 sharps...So the relative minor G# minor also has 5 sharps....

G# minor can also be called Ab minor...But Ab minor has 7 sharps...

But they share the exact same notes...What is point of adding two extra sharps when calling it Ab minor?

And C# minor for example, can you call that key Db minor? Cus the latter is not in the ci
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