It is simple to have a chromatic scale using a standard music stave. The huge advantage is that you play the note you see, which obviates the need for sharp flat and natural symbols. This is how it’s done. The colours used are red green and yellow. Because I like those colours. It doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m gay. Middle ‘C’ is red. The next note up, C#/Db, is green. The next note up, ‘D’, is yellow. The next note up ‘D#/Eb is red. So on and so forth ad infinitum. The position of a note on the stave together with it’s colour indicates precisely which note on the keyboard is to be played. Taking the treble part of the stave as an example, the default colour for the bottom line is green and indicates the note ‘E’. If the colour of the note on the bottom line were red then this would indicate the note ‘Eb’ is to be played. Similarly the default note colour for the space below the bottom line, ‘D’, is yellow. If the colour of the note in this space were red, it would indicate that the note ‘D#’ is to be played. Further simplification would be achieved if a standard form of notation could be agreed upon. I would favour, ‘C’, ‘Db, ‘D’, ‘Eb’, ‘E’, ‘F’, ‘Gb’, ‘G’, ‘Ab’, ‘A’, ‘Bb’,’B’, but, some sort of referendum would be required, polling the best musical brains in the country, to see if a standard form was viable and desireable. I believe you have a Richard Parnutt working in this area, I'm sure he would be interested in the above.
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