Re: what about simplifying music notation?

[David Kastrup]

Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

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.

The frets in a guitar are not _deliberately_ designed around a chromatic
scale, but because their positioning is dictated by physics.

Contrast that with a flute or a saxophone or anything else with a
_deliberate_ design of controls.

-- 
David Kastrup