<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 10/2/01 8:33:06 AM Central Daylight Time, hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu (Conrad Hoffsommer)
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">most typewriter/computer keyboards have a "#" character, it
<BR>really is a chore to find a character for "flat". </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>You could use the small letter "b" as I do but italicize it: <I>b.</I> But I don't think it comes through that way on everyone's e-mail. I searched the list of foreign characters for something that would work but with Microsoft hardware, there just is none. The only other alternative I've seen suggested is to spell out the word but that becomes very cumbersome as in: "the contiguous 3rds A-flat3(G#3)-C4 and C4-E4". I'd go to the trouble of using the italics if I thought it would be worth the effort: A<I>b</I>3(G#3)-C4.
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<BR>Bill Bremmer RPT
<BR>Madison, Wisconsin</FONT></HTML>