Re: Organ Fingering Notation

[Brian Barker]

At 11:19 21/04/2014 -0700, Zack Noname wrote:
> There is a fingering symbol that I don't know the name of (and so it 
> is hard to look up in the documentation without a name) ...
> If I want the alto voice on the treble staff played with the left 
> hand there is a symbol that looks like [ without the bottom line and 
> if I want the note on the bass clef played with the right hand its a 
> [ without the upper line ...
>
> Anyone know what I'm "talking" about?

Interestingly, Elaine Gould knows what you are talking about but also 
doesn't know their name:
> A verbal instruction may indicate that notes are to be taken with 
> the other hand. ... Alternatively, such notes may be shown with an 
> incomplete bracket, extending vertically from the notehead upwards 
> for right-hand notes, downwards for left-hand notes. (at p. 305)

Brian Barker