Re: New feature suggestion

[Phil Holmes]

"Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> > As my musical education and practice is from a different note
> > language, I cannot really say much about the motivation of that
> > approach.  In my country one would never call a "cis" just "c" when
> > talking about music, not even informally (but then nobody wants to
> > get caught being informal anyway).  Is this really significantly
> > different in English?
>
> Yes, it is, AFAIK.  A similar situation exists in countries where
> solmisation is common.  If you use do, re, mi, for singing a melody,
> accidentals are normally omitted.

In England, people who don't understand music would refer to a note on the 
top line of a treble staff in G major as an F.  Musicians would always, 
always, call it an F sharp.

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Phil Holmes