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Re: what about simplifying music notation?
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Francisco Vila |
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Re: what about simplifying music notation? |
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Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:06:51 +0100 |
2011/3/14 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:
>> Frets in a guitar are absolutely chromatic. I did not mention
>> fretless instruments.
>
> So please explain how you are would sort frets into a diatonic scale
> arrangement corresponding to white keys on a piano, with the frets
> corresponding to black keys put someplace else.
I a sense, frets behave like buttons.
> The frets in a guitar are not _deliberately_ designed around a chromatic
> scale, but because their positioning is dictated by physics.
Still, frets behave somewhat like buttons.
> Contrast that with a flute or a saxophone or anything else with a
> _deliberate_ design of controls.
That's why I mentioned Stanley Jordan who percutes strings against the
fretboard only, thus allowing complex two-hand polyphony and making
frets look as if they were buttons :-))
--
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com
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