TheDirt--
I had your same thought, but that just brought up more questions. If the alphabetical names along with sharps and flats were named after the black keys of a piano, that means the black keys were chosen to be different first. So that brings up the question, why did they single out those 5 keys to be different? Maybe those five notes just sounded special to the first musicians?
It would be nice to know why some things were chosen as it may help us create.
SLY--
As a mathemitician, I can use calculus perfectly without knowing how the idea came to the inventor's head. But if I could learn his creative process, I might be able to create something on my own that is just as powerful.