<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Historical Pianos/notation</title></head><body> <div>Dave,</div> <div><br></div> <div>Thank your for responding.</div> <div><br></div> <div>I feel I got the gist of what you have said, therefore the digit zero (0) is not used.</div> <div><br></div> <div>So if I understand correctly, the following constitutes what you say is the standard notation except among piano tuners:</div> <div><br></div> <div>A2 thru G#2 (capital letters and digits subscript)</div> <div>A1 thru G#1 (capital letters and digits subscript)</div> <div>a thru g#      (lower case and no digits)</div> <div>a1 thru g#1 (lower case and digits superscript)</div> <div>a2 thru g#2 (lower case and digits superscript)</div> <div>a3 thru g#3 (lower case and digits superscript)</div> <div>a4 thru g#4 (lower case and digits superscript)</div> <div>a5 thru c5   (lower case and digits superscript)</div> <div><br></div> <div>Yes/No?</div> <div><br></div> <div>Keith McGavern</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>At 7:36 PM -0500 6/11/03, Dave Doremus wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>At 12:49 PM -0500 6/4/03, Keith McGavern wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite>... is a zero (0) used for that octave, and if so, is it subscript, superscript or something else?</blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Keith, I take it you refer to '<font size="+2" color="#330000">range A</font><font size="+1" color="#330000">2</font><font size="+2" color="#330000"> - c</font><font size="+1" color="#330000">5</font><font size="+2" color="#330000">,' </font> 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.</blockquote> <div><br></div> </body> </html>