<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Historical Pianos/notation</title></head><body> <div>At 12:49 PM -0500 6/4/03, Keith McGavern wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>A question: When it references the scale as</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>A subscript 2 - C superscript 5</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>is a zero (0) used for that octave, and if so, is it subscript, superscript or something else?</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Keith McGavern</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#330000"> </font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Keith, I take it you refer to '<font face="Goudy Old Style" size="+2" color="#330000">range A</font><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="+1" color="#330000">2</font><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="+2" color="#330000"> - c</font><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="+1" color="#330000">5</font><font face="Goudy Old Style" 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.</div> </body> </html>