John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, I was wondering how long it would take for some German and/or
> Scandinavian musicians to suggest this. It didn't take long for one
> of each to speak up. The point comes across far better when people
> from that tradition call the "H" notation an error and idiocy. When
> we outsiders criticise it, our criticism can easily be taken as some
> sort of cultural chauvinism, but when insiders say the same thing, it
> becomes a lot harder to justify using such notation.
Actually I've been playing off English-style music notation (with `B'
in place of `H') so much that I find it thoroughly disconcerting to
actually encounter music that says `H'. In fact all the German SCD
musicians I know use `B' for `H' in their own arrangements and
compositions for the sake of consistency. I for one will not shed a
single tear if ABC is kept completely `English' in that respect. In
fact I'm strongly in favour of the idea.
I don't know where the `H' abomination came in but I'm quite happy to
call it an error and idiocy, for the record. I do have a German
passport.
> But it would be even better to take the opportunity to put a bit more
> pressure to eliminate this bad notation entirely. A lot of Germans
> and Scandinavians would thank us.
Well, I don't think the ABC user community is quite ready yet to put
that kind of pressure on the music scene at large ... :^)
Anselm
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Anselm Lingnau .......................................... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but
saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope
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