Scan a copy of the instructions and send them to me. I can read a moderate number of characters and my mother is fluent. So we can tell you what it says.
Toby > John Walsh wrote: >> Second question: I have a Chinese book of flute tunes, written out >> much like abc, but in numbers, not letters. If I could read the >> Chinese introduction, I probably wouldn't have to ask but...does >> anybody here know anything about this notation? Is it particular to >> the flute, or is it a general music notation? > > I once bought a simple plastic flute during a trip to China once. It > looks like a recorder but has six holes, just like an Irish whistle (the > same fingering, too). The accompanying note that demonstrates the > fingering uses a similar (maybe the same?) notation. I don't know > whether it is a commonly used notation or one reserved for the flute. > What I could make up from the pictures (unfortunately, I don't read > Chinese) is that '1' probably denotes the root of the scale (an F in the > case of my flute). Notes from the higher octave have a dot above the > number, those from the lower octave a dot below. > > Does this help at all? > > bert > > -- > Bert Van Vreckem > > If Bill Gates had a penny for each time Windows crashed... > Wait a minute! He does! > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: > http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
