Re: [abcusers] developers/user

[Frank Nordberg]

John Chambers wrote:
> 
> Laurie writes:
> | And some musicians regard H as being some key or other that definitely isn't
> | highland pipes!  Let's NOT do this.
> 
> Well, the only musical usage of H  that  I  know  of  is  the  German
> terminology, in which B means B flat and H means B natural.

This is not only German. We use it in Scandinavia - and probably a
couple of other countries too.

Basically this is a result of a typo back in the medieval time. Since
this happened at about the same time as the introduction ot the first
"accidental", the B flat, somebody thought it would be a good idea to
use two different letters for those two notes, so the thing just kind a
stuck. Recently some musicians have tried to get rid of the thing, but
it's very, very hard to just cancel out a centuries long tradition, so I
guess we're stuck with it.


Frank Nordberg


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