Historical Pianos/notation

[Keith McGavern]

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Dave,

Thank your for responding.

I feel I got the gist of what you have said, therefore the digit zero 
(0) is not used.

So if I understand correctly, the following constitutes what you say 
is the standard notation except among piano tuners:

A2 thru G#2 (capital letters and digits subscript)
A1 thru G#1 (capital letters and digits subscript)
a thru g#      (lower case and no digits)
a1 thru g#1 (lower case and digits superscript)
a2 thru g#2 (lower case and digits superscript)
a3 thru g#3 (lower case and digits superscript)
a4 thru g#4 (lower case and digits superscript)
a5 thru c5   (lower case and digits superscript)

Yes/No?

Keith McGavern


At 7:36 PM -0500 6/11/03, Dave Doremus wrote:
>At 12:49 PM -0500 6/4/03, Keith McGavern wrote:
>>... is a zero (0) used for that octave, and if so, is it subscript, 
>>superscript or something else?
>
>Keith, I take it you refer to 'range A2 - c5,'  this is standard 
>notation except among piano tuners. c is the one an octave below 
>middle C, the capitals start there and go down so that the next 
>octave is B down to C than BB (or B2), down to AA. c1 (or c') is 
>middle c, followed by c2 (c''), c3, c4, c5. So this is modern piano 
>range. I am used to writing it AA - c''''', but it is the same. This 
>notation applies across all instruments and times as the range 
>changes, it is not modern piano centered. It is easy to use once you 
>get used to it. I hope I explained this well, it's the end of a long 
>day.

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