Which of course means that we need a header somewhere to say "This is guitar" (or English concertina, oboe or whatever) or else some people will be trying thoroughly bizarre fingerings and wondering why they don't work!
L.
 
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Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

Laurie Griffiths said -

>Muse uses ; to include fingering hints in ABC.
>i.e. a3;4 means play the a on the 4th string (probably
>at the 12th fret for guitar).

Great idea.  I might use this for cross fingering on English concertina and
perhaps I could adapt it to indicate forked F on the oboe.

I expect lots of other people could come up with ideas for how to use it for
their chosen instrument.

Bryan Creer

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