At 12:29 PM -0500 6/05/02, Joel Sears wrote:
>Here goes the start of another thread. I don't recall seeing an "v" 
>shaped accent in Jazz writing. A sideways "v" I always heard called 
>an accent. At school, in Texas, we Jazzers  called an upside down 
>"v" a "housetop." I got into trouble, though, in LA, at a recording 
>session, for calling it that. After the studio musicians got through 
>giving me a lot of guff about it, I found out that they called it a 
>"gable" accent. ( I always had trouble recording there).
>
>Joel Sears

When it goes underneath a note, it is inverted to a V. In many jazz 
and commercial copying styles, all articulations are always written 
OVER the notes, so you might not have seen it inverted. Even so, it 
is quite rare.
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