On Jul 7, 2005, at 7:44 AM, Richard Yates wrote:
What does a 12th-note look like?
http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/TwelfthNote.jpg
I make that a 3/32 note.
Maybe we should drop all of this fraction nonsense, join the rest of
the
world, and go with the metric system.
You've been reading my column in the staff newsletter at my school here
in Montreal!
I postulated that the new provincial standards in music education
outline dropping the old-fashioned 12-note system as forced upon us by
the English, in favour of a 10-note metric music system, to agree with
the French metric measurement system. The notes G# and Db, being the
least-used, would be removed from the school's pianos by government
workers with crowbars, and the other keys moved over to fill the gaps.
Students would have approximately 16% less chance of hitting a wrong
note while playing, and theory scores would improve as well, there
being only ten keys instead of twelve, thereby improving student
success rates at the college. In the jazz combos, Miles Davis would be
known as 1.6 Kilometres Davis, and Frank Loesser's "Inchworm" will be
played as "2.5 Centimetres Worm."
Next year, metric clocks!
(the column appeared April 1st of last year.)
Christopher
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