HP Hp are scale specific rather than instrument specific. You can play a
pipe tune on a fiddle provided you know what the pipe mode is.
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Bryan Creer writes:
Well, it didn't take much figuring since that is what I stated explicitly but
it is the public aspect of abc that I was referring to. I'm not sure why you
consider this mislistthropic.
I don't at all---I was just referring to your statement that:
There was no
John Walsh
| ... However, I think that a
| lot of the instrument specific--and other--notation could be introduced
| from the users end, if there just is sufficient flexibility in abc. (And
| there is, at least potentially.) For instance, suppose we had a
| generalization of the much-overused
Bryan Creer wrote:
Oh, did Bryan mean that statement seriously? Hmm... I thought
there was a hint of sarcasm there, just as I've taken this entire
thread as an indirect demonstration that the saying abc is for the music
alone* (_whatever_ that may mean), is a worthy rule of thumb for overall
John Walsh wrote:
One basis of misunderstanding here may be an assumption that
instrument-specific notation must be carved in stone in the language--as
u and v for upbow and downbow are now, for instance. It doesn't. (It
can't, really, for abc doesn't have the resources. In my own
Bryan Creer wrote:
Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
Blow the spirit-stirring harp like anything!
W.S.Gilbert
Laurie Griffiths said -
An instruction to play a note on fret 9 of the G string instead of the open
E string is musically relevant.
My concertina doesn't have E or G strings
Bryan Creer, then Phil Taylor, wrote:
This and the example imply that the instrument being played is relevant.
Wouldn't it be best to exclude instrument specific notation from abc?
It could get very messy if you don't.
That's a purist approach. While it would be nice to have a notation
