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Re: Idle curiousity about ancient Lily-lore
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Idle curiousity about ancient Lily-lore |
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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:35:59 +0100 |
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Wols Lists <address@hidden> writes:
> On 10/03/13 02:40, Jim Long wrote:
>
>> Why is "a" A 220, and not A 440?
>
> It isn't :-)
It is.
> Read up on "concert pitch" - the wikipedia article is interesting, not
> only in the fact that concert pitch has a single-digit ISO standard to
> its credit!
>
> And oh, I think you mean lilypond's "a".
It's the same as Helmholtz "a".
> I think there, it's the fact that "c" is middle C.
Middle C is c'.
> (Or have I got that wrong? I always use relative notation so I can
> never remember the absolute ,s and 's)
I have a hard time imagining what you'd be writing after \relative if
you can't even remember the name of middle C.
Without knowing at least _one_ absolute pitch, anchoring \relative will
be a challenge.
--
David Kastrup