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Re: triangle chord notation


From: David Raleigh Arnold
Subject: Re: triangle chord notation
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:13:59 -0400
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On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:35:57 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> I don't have any opinion on my own, but looked into a fairly authoritative
> book in notation ("Noter" by B. Tyboni, if you happen to read Swedish),
> which says that the triangle is equivalent to "maj" and always implies a
> major seventh.

The triangle was invented in the U. S. by a member of the MENC, for maj7.
It always was a terrible idea, especially because, when written in haste,
a triangle can look like anything at all.  daveA






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