Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:08:23 -0600
"Trevor Ba__a" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Jan 23, 2008 2:39 AM, Valentin Villenave <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
> > 2008/1/22, Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> >
> > > I agree; I've never encountered the term "half-flats".  But maybe
> > > it's a European thing?  (or a poor translation from the
> > > appropriate terms in Dutch or French or something?)
> >
> > Please do not *always* assume that because something is weird, it
> > must be French :)

Hey, I singled out a different country first.  Now granted, I
*do* always assume that because something is weird, it must be
European...

> Right, I say change the terms in our docs.

Changed in Accidentals.  If there's anything that needs changing
in "note names in other languages", please post specific
instructions.

> Sidenote: Graham had suggested (maybe jokingly?) to check the
> wikipedia history under "Accidentals" to find out how the term got
> into their docs

Mostly jokingly.  I spent 60 seconds looking through the history
before suggesting it here, but decided that I wasn't /that/
curious.

> (which is how I suspect it crept into ours).

Actually, I doubt that.  I can't see Han-Wen looking up musical
terms in wikipedia... especially four or five years ago when the
original docs were written.

Cheers,
- Graham