Bill Evans used to use a European 7, the one with a slash through it used to 
distinguish it from the European 1 that looks a lot like our 7. I got  used to 
that as a shorthand Maj7 symbol. It worked especially well for min/Maj7 chords. 
Anything's good, as long as there's concensus. I'd use Bill's notation now, if 
others knew it and adopted it. Instead, I use triangles, not universally loved 
but pretty well understood and accepted. 

Chuck

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> On Nov 14, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Christopher Smith 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ha ha! Yes, Darcy nailed it. Cmaj7, the Canadian variant. I saw it here in 
> Montreal, too, and had to deal with musicians mis-reading it as Cdim7, among 
> other things. Like the crumhorn, the serpent, and the ophecleide, the circled 
> 7th chord has died a deserved death, only employed by dead people and weirdos.
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 
>> On Wed Nov 13, at WednesdayNov 13 11:19 PM, dershem wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/13/2013 8:14 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
>>> I would assume G7, but can you ask composer?
>>> On Nov 14, 2013 11:10 AM, "dershem" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Lost my ouija board - alas, the composer is dead.  And Canadian.  Don't 
>> know if that makes a difference or not.  It's an old Rob McConnell chart 
>> I'm doing a new edition of for the publisher.
>> 
>> cd
>> 
>> 
>>>> I'm doing a chart, and the composer has some chords as "C (7)"  but
>>>> instead of parentheses, the 7 is in a circle.  I have never run across
>>>> that variant before.
>>>> What is he trying to specify?
>>>> 
>>>> Carl
> 
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