Re: not-so-ancient flags

[madhg]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> 
> 
> There are currently three things that are bothering me:
> 
> 1) What are the optimal values for the flag angle, the flag length (for 
> up/downstems), the flag thickness and the space between two adjacent
> flags?
> 
> 2) The flags do not start at the very top/bottom of the stem, but actually
> a 
> little bit below/above. This looks awkward.
> 
> 3) The slash through the stem/flag with the acciaccatura looks really bad.
> 

1) personally I like the flags in the first row of my June 17 message in
this thread.  As you say it's a matter of taste.

3) In the period of these flags (later 18th Cent.) "acciaccatura" as used in
modern music doesn't exist (the word referred to an ornament of arpeggiated
chords, where a dissonant note was briefly touched, not normally notated). 
Having looked through the facsimiles which I possess, I'd say that
grace-notes were tiny, did not have a slash through the stem, and were not
normally slurred to the following note.   Here's an example:


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