"Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> writes:

> "G.S. Williams" <gorsw...@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:loom.20120130t041720-...@post.gmane.org...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been tied up with classical music for several decades,
>> and we have always referred to
>> pairs of notes as "DUPLETS",
>> not,"TUPLETS:.why do you people in the U.S.A. always
>> change terminology?
>
> Many of the team are non-US nationals.

That would seem to imply that is actually the LilyPond developer base
who were considered numerous and/or influential enough to change
established musicological vocabulary.

I am afraid we are not quite there yet.

-- 
David Kastrup


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