In a message dated 6/22/2000 1:31:06 AM, Don wrote: <<"Further we should all be typing in the Dvorak system. Not Qwerty">> Don; You really should watch your language there might be children present! :-) On the notation thing though........just a uSWAG but....could the notation have been developed due to the plethora of keyboard compasses, offsets on dual organ/clavier keyboards, etc. So Ron using your notational, it would seem to me that while A1 is not aprox 27.5hz, on a 65 note keyboard, it still is A1, correct? Then what notational descriptor would you give to C-523.5? or A-440 on that keyboard? And on a two manual organ with an octave offset, physical or tonal, which A1 is really A1? the one on the top manual or the one on the bottom manual? How would you notate the difference between A1 on a Bosy Imp. and the A1 on a Wurlitzer 65 note thingee? (for that matter I don't know how I would notate the lowest A on the Bosy anyway...perhaps A below A0?) Using the current notation system with A-440 being A4 and going up and down from there seems to make sense since there is always an A4 which is the same on all, well OK 'most', keyboards. But as I said this is just a uSWAG and a couple of questions. Jim Bryant (FL)
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