>On 16 Sep 2011 at 11:18, Patrick Sheehan wrote: > > > News flash: We all have to deal >> with reading multiple ledger lines (pianists, flutists, violinists). >> Don't complain about ledger lines; learn to read them and be >> comfortable! We don't have a staff that has 10 lines, only 5.
Actually that isn't true. Pianists DO have a staff with 10 lines. It's called a Grand Staff. Organists have one with 15 lines. Most of us have to make do with 5 (or only 4, in Guido's original chant notation). That's why movable clefs were invented (by Guido himself!) in the first place. And since pianists have an instrument with a wider range than any other (from the contrabassoon's low A to the piccolo's double high C) but are stuck with a Grand Staff not originally designed for that wide a range (the organ is treated as a transposing instrument with stop changes giving different octaves), pianists HAVE to read both ledger lines and 8va and 15va above or below the staves. But the whole discussion has gotten rather pointless. You have your opinions, you asked your questions, and you don't seem to like the perfectly valid answers you've gotten. You're certainly entitled to your opinions. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
