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From: briang@bari.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: ASCII representation of music
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Date: 28 Jul 90 16:05:43 GMT
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In article <148632@felix.UUCP> daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards) writes:
>The article that prompted this has expired at my site, but I've been kicking
>around an idea I had... since MIDI is pretty much spoken everywhere now, why
>not use the midi number values for pitch representation (numbers 0-127)?  This
>is non-ambiguous with regard to octave, and eliminates the requirement to spell
>accidentals correctly (is it F# or Gb), as well as the confusion associated
>with the occasional double-flat or double-sharp, and E#, Cb, etc.  These MIDI
>numbers are not all that hard to memorize, at least for 2 or 3 octaves.
>	[...]

Oops.  For my work (which is obviously not restricted by the limitations of
keyboards), the differences between C# and Db, and D## and E are critical, both
the the performer and the audience ...

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