John Chambers wrote: >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 '?'.
Unnecessary. You can already write: K: Adorian %? but nobody does. People who get the mode wrong are mostly not aware of their errors, and don't question their mode decisions as long as it gets the right key signature. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
