On 13-Feb-07, at 1:59 PM, Michael Pilgrim wrote:
Metric Week:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Saturday,
Saturday, Saturday, Sunday.
MBP
continuing the stream of consciousness further off-topic, there
was a brilliant sketch on the decabet, the new 10-letter alphabet
- proposed by tim kazurinsky, early SNL - when the US was set to
go metric.
In keeping with the metric system now in use throughout the rest of
the country, the Ministère de l'Education has decreed that from now
on, music courses taught in colleges in Québec will now use a ten-
note scale, rather than the present Imperial English system of twelve
notes. This will increase student success by reducing the possibility
of wrong notes by 8.33%, and make grading easier on theory
assignments as well.
As F# and Eb are the least-used notes according to a three-year
survey commissioned by the Minister, they will be the ones to be
deleted. Music teachers will have to rearrange existing music as part
of their teaching load with no additional remuneration (see the
provincial law imposing the settlement of the last teacher's strike,
paragraph 405.33.2, second line.) Ministry technicians with crowbars
will be visiting the colleges in Quebec soon to adjust the pianos by
removing the extraneous notes and moving the neighbouring notes over
to fill in the gaps.
Hey, I like it! Ten notes, ten fingers; could playing piano be any
simpler now?
Christopher
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