Richard Robinson writes:
| >
| > Of course,  such  searches  are  always  prone  to  failure
| > because people just give the wrong key.  It's common to see
| > K:G for tunes in E minor or A dorian.  There's not a lot we
| > can do about this except try to educate people.
|
| If I had them locally (the tunes, not the people) it might be worth
| considering a single-character key sig as a flag for "this might
| need changing" :-)

Well, this might not be all that bad an idea.  I've thought
that  it  would  be  nice  if  a  transcriber  could  write
something like:

K:?Adorian

This would mean that the transcriber is guessing  the  key.
The software would just ignore the '?', of course, and give
^f as the signature.  But it would warn interested  readers
(humand  and  software) that the transcriber had some doubt
about the accuracy of the key.

Implementing this would be easy for most abc software: Just
ignore the '?'.

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