Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

[David Wright]

On Wed 13 May 2020 at 16:35:48 (-0500), David Nalesnik wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:34 PM antlists <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On 13/05/2020 16:38, David Kastrup wrote:
> > > Given the number of English-speaking LilyPond users who all share the
> > > somewhat strange habit of calling a b-flat "b" if there is a flat in the
> > > key signature, it is sort of a safe bet that you are not the first to
> > > make this kind of proposal.
> >
> > Are these the same ones who call b an h?
> >
> > Certainly for someone who's mother tongue is English (NOT American) I'd
> > never call b-flat a b because how would I tell whether it's flat or not :-)
> >
> 
> ! hear it a lot in the US.  (And it's often correlated with losing
> sight of the key signature...)

Assuming ! stands for "I" and not negation, I can't say that I've met
English speakers in either the UK or US who use b and h for Bflat and B.
Under what circumstances do you hear it: amateur choirs and orchestral
players, professionals, or in academic duscussions of German music?

Cheers,
David.