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
>
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