David Rogers <davidandrewrog...@gmail.com> wrote: > It turns out that the correct number for C4, C5, and so on can be found > by counting the number of Cs on a standard 88-key piano, starting from > the low end and starting with 1. Is this an accident, or is this the > origin of that numbering system?
That's the origin. > (I'm assuming that the three "leftover" > keys lower than the lowest C on the piano are numbered zero?) Yup. > I suspect but can't remember with certainty, that MIDI uses this > numbering system incorrectly, and I think that might be the source of > the confusion here. I have seen this as well. Officially, MIDI just refers to the notes by number (0 to 127), but I have seen charts that try to label MIDI note number 0 as "C0", whereas it should be "C-1". This chart does it right: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/notes.html -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
