* David Raleigh Arnold <d...@openguitar.com> [2010-09-02 19:36]:
On Thursday 02 September 2010 12:23:58 David Rogers wrote:
Just for good measure (or bad measure :-) ), another possible meaning
could be "lines resembling the ruling in a ledger book, i.e. square
with the page and evenly spaced relative to each other".
But that resembles staff lines, not leger lines.
True enough - but none of the other possibilities, whether for ledger or
légère, is any more correct or convincing.
Another possibility: the use of the word "line" may be spurious, and
"ledger" used in the sense of "a wooden beam installed for the purpose
of creating a ledge" may be the direct ancestor of the musical term - "a
ledger" and _not_ "a ledger line".
But who knows?
And to answer that rhetorical question: Nobody, and certainly not either
of us. :)
--
David
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