Inertia.
On 5/2/2019 7:00 PM, Tristan von Neumann wrote:
Here's a question:
Why do French prints have 5 lines for the 6 course instrument?
Early manuscripts like Pesaro (but not all of them, like BSB Mus. Ms.
2987) already employ six lines.
While 5 lines in Ms. can be explained by the use of the same 5-point pen
used for the lines of staff notation, I wonder why this is also occuring
in prints?
In type-set prints, you need to make different types for staff and tab
notation, so why keep 5 lines?
:)
T*
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