Re: Old-fashioned rest symbol

[Karl Hammar]

> >> Can you point me to an image of this symbol?
> >>
> > In my experience, this rest looks like a backward eighth-rest;
> 
> I've seen it in some music theory books printed exactly as a 8th rest  
> mirrored over a vertical axis.

Go to:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/source/
input/test/out-www/collated-files.html

scroll down to rests.ly and look at the "classical" example.

Regards
/Karl