tablature notation tautology

[David Raleigh Arnold]

"Tablature notation is used for notating music for plucked string instruments. 
It notates pitches not by using note heads, but by indicating on which string 
and fret a note must be played."

Seemingly a minor matter, but troublesome, producing wrong thinking, and 
leading to mistakes already.  Tablature is not notation.  Better something like:

"Tablature does not give pitches, but instead indicates how notes are to be 
played.  In the case of plucked stringed instruments, it gives string and fret."

There was such a thing as keyboard tablature, for one thing, when the keyboard 
was first invented.  I'll have harmonica tablature pretty soon, or rather a 
helper for it.  It can be done now, without great difficulty.  Some
wind instruments give fingering by a diagram of the holes.  Producing the tab 
is simply a matter of putting
little black and white circles in as fingering.  If it's on a single line staff 
instead of a regular one, it's
tab, otherwise, it's notation.

Actually, all drum notation is tablature, strictly speaking, but there you 
don't have both tablature and notation to cause confusion, so "drum notation" 
makes sense.  "Tablature notation" does not.  DaveA