>Hi Ron, > >This designation is the same for the SAT and RTC. > >You are just contrary enough to want something different >that what all the rest of us has had to take the time to get >used to. > >(sigh) Such difficult people! > >But then again you never did like doing it like everyone >else now did you. > > Newton :) Yea but... yea but... What the heck's the point of having a pitch standard centered on "A" so we can have to learn to get around some lingering fossilized "C"-centric pitch notation system eighty years after the fact? It's no wonder there's confusion with note references in technical correspondence with some following the ancestral plan, and some trying to figure it out sensibly. If the pitch standard was centered on C, it would be more logically acceptable, but as it is, it's nonsense. Sorry, but this sort of arbitrary designation offends my sense of order and logic. I consider it unnecessarily obfuscatory, counter productive, and "quaint" to no productive purpose. Why can't we get used to a sensible and rational system instead? Who knows, given time and therapy, we might just be able to make the leap. Now I know why I'm an aural tuner. Ron N
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