Hello David,
I feel compelled to say this is the best post I have ever seen on this
list, on any topic! Marvellous.
As an aside, I find the TAB symbol just particularly dreadful. But I
often wonder why tablature even needs it - surely it is obvious that
what follows is tab, and it does not indicate relative pitch. Well, I am
not a guitarist.
Andrew
On 28/11/2020 1:27 pm, David Rogers wrote:
If those letters were human, they’d each be wearing a fancy red dress.
And also a fancy blue dress at the same time, with a big metallic-gold
sash. And they’d have their hair in ringlets, and pinned in their hair
they’d each have two peonies in full bloom. And every time you played
the guitar, they would sing, in Spanish and Ukrainian and Igbo, each
one singing all three languages at once, with different lyrics. And it
would be strangely glorious, and for this you would be the envy of all
your friends. Until you discovered that along with the dresses and the
hair and the flowers, they’re vain and egotistical, constantly
preening and showing off and trying to outdo each other, and once they
start singing they won’t shut up.
So it’s probably a good thing they’re just letters. :)
