In most cases, musicians will be following the rule that
accidentals apply in all octaves, so for them it doesn't
matter where the key-sig accidentals are drawn.
You seem to forget that ABC players also should be able to make
sense of the notation.
I suggest the following:
1) [K:D exp
Jack Campin writes:
|
| Here's a toughie, though. In some of the folk idioms of Georgia,
| there is no octave-based scale: the music uses stacked major
| tetrachords instead -
|
|C D E F
| F G A _B
| _B c d _e
|
| and so on (since this is vocal music,
