Re: what about simplifying music notation?

[Francisco Vila]

2011/3/14 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 2011/3/14 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>>> The _only_ non-fringe (and you
>>> might debate that) instrument I know that has controls _deliberately_
>>> designed around a chromatic scale (note that string instruments have
>>> their controls dictated by physics) is the chromatic button accordion.
>>>
>>> Every _other_ instrument, even woodwinds and percussion, has its
>>> controls designed around a diatonic scale, and where that scale is not C
>>> major, the instrument is often written down in transposed notation.
>>
>> Let me add Stanley Jordan's guitar tuned by fifths which looks fairly
>> chromatic to me.
>
> What about "_deliberately_ designed around a chromatic scale (note that
> string instruments have their controls dictated by physics)" did you not
> understand?

Frets in a guitar are absolutely chromatic.  I did not mention
fretless instruments.

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Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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