At 10:24 PM -0500 6/11/03, Keith McGavern wrote: > >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) >......... >a5 thru c5 (lower case and digits superscript) > >Yes/No? > Keith, yes, but change at C rather than A. Piano scale is thus: AAA-BBB or Asub2 CC-BB or Csub1 C-B c-b c'-b' or csuper1 c''-b'' or csuper2 c'''-b''' c''''-b'''' c''''' I cant get Eudora to do the subscript thing, but if you look in a Groves dictionary I'm sure it will all be laid out there. The point was not that piano tuners are wrong but that the A1-C4-C7 or A1-C88 versions exist only on the piano since the 1880's and not on organs or early keyboards much less on flutes or contrabassoons. Hope this helps, -- ----Dave ----------------------------- Dave Doremus RPT New Orleans algiers_piano@bellsouth.net ------------------------------
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