I believe that the Bbb you are seeing
Not seeing it at all, and never claimed to have done. Wondering if there
is any excuse for it. Please read what I wrote people!
Am writing software that depends on descriptions of instruments for
playback from tablature, a nominal pitch + an interval
...@suffolk.lib.ny.us
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:00 AM
To: William Brohinsky
Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: nominal pitch for instruments
I believe that the Bbb you are seeing
Not seeing it at all, and never claimed to have done. Wondering if there
is any excuse for it. Please
If we're discussing equal temperament and modern concepts of key
signatures,
I can't envision why you'd want to double flat a B in favor of just saying
A.
Unfortunately, we have heard from one brass player who has a crook labeled
Bbb, reflecting the actual pitch of nominal Bb in A=415.
I
I believe that the Bbb you are seeing refers to something like the BBb
tuba, and the second b is lower case because of someone's
overagressive capitalization-correction system.
In BBb tuba, the doubled capital B shows the octave that the note is
in, and the last b represents the flat. This is a
No reason not to call an instrument in B Flat; historically they more
often used terms like alto, tenor, followed by hexachord syllables,
then pitches. The reason is that they used a transposing system.
So if you really want to think like they thought, it is better to
think in a transposing
