Excerpts from David Kastrup's message of Mon Mar 14 16:32:56 +0000 2011: > Since that is not the case for most instruments (in particular not for > piano keyboards), they have nothing to gain from a notation matching > better what they hear rather than what they need to play. First this could be changed (I know nobody will be doing so ..)
Second: You're wrong. By giving pitches numbers you'll naturally feel than the distance 2-5 is the same as 8-11 and 27-30 and 45-48. Thus you're brain is more likely to make the association about the same intervals being equal. Thus you don't think mentally: I have to play C-E but you think manually: I have to play 12-16 and every musician who went to school will instantly know that those are 4 semi tones. If you try to teach a grown man /woman about intervals it must sound crazy to them. They will never know instantly that a fifth up on g is a d. But they will always (instantly!) know that 7 + 7 will be 14 (which would represent a d) And this gain will also apply to piano players. I'm not talking about professionals who are spending 8 hours in front of the piano each day anyway.. I'm talking about people who have a day job and do this just for fun. Marc Weber _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
