On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:34 PM antlists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > On 13/05/2020 16:38, David Kastrup wrote: > > Given the number of English-speaking LilyPond users who all share the > > somewhat strange habit of calling a b-flat "b" if there is a flat in the > > key signature, it is sort of a safe bet that you are not the first to > > make this kind of proposal. > > Are these the same ones who call b an h? > > Certainly for someone who's mother tongue is English (NOT American) I'd > never call b-flat a b because how would I tell whether it's flat or not :-) >
! hear it a lot in the US. (And it's often correlated with losing sight of the key signature...) Interestingly, a separation between "note name" and "alteration" is part of LilyPond internals: Function: ly:make-pitch octave note alter octave is specified by an integer, zero for the octave containing middle C. note is a number indexing the global default scale, with 0 corresponding to pitch C and 6 usually corresponding to pitch B. Optional alter is a rational number of 200-cent whole tones for alteration David N.
