Frank Nordberg writes:
| 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.
Yeah; I've seen it a lot. Poles and Russians use it, 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.
But we don't have to let it into ABC. ;-)
--
John "some doors are best left shut" Chambers
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