On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 05:34:23PM +0100, Frank Nordberg wrote:
> Example:
> The chord C E G Bb D
> is notated:
> C9
>
> If we want to sharpen the 9th, we can just add a + in front of it:
> C+9
I will repeat, for about the fifth time, that I and many others would
read thatr as CADD9, C E G D. +/-
> That simply won't work with the #/b system. C#9 is a completely
> different chord. The usual solution is to add a 7:
> C7#9
Or to use brackets, which disambiguate nicely.
C(#9).
> That's fair enough, of course, but it requires slightly more complex
> rules for the poor computer.
You'll find my parser handles C#9 and C(#9) correctly.
It's not hard.
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