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Re: Enharmonic symbol

Posted: 11 Jan 2024, 19:57
by Anders Hedelin
IMO any supplementary explanation will just obscure the simple fact that the same note is spelled both as D flat and as C sharp. What's the problem?

Re: Enharmonic symbol

Posted: 11 Jan 2024, 21:39
by benwiggy
Anders Hedelin wrote: 11 Jan 2024, 19:57 What's the problem?
Singers! :lol:

Re: Enharmonic symbol

Posted: 11 Jan 2024, 22:30
by hautbois baryton
Why not place the enharmonic between the Db and the C#? There's room there...

Re: Enharmonic symbol

Posted: 13 Jan 2024, 11:59
by benwiggy
In that instance, yes; but there are lots of other bars with nothing but black notes, and adding another notehead would disrupt the spacing and be just as confusing, in my opinion, as others have found my alternatives!

I'll just leave it to everyone to put their own pencil mark on them.

Re: Enharmonic symbol

Posted: 15 Jan 2024, 20:02
by OCTO
Personally, I would add - nothing. Db and C# are totally normal notes.

Re: Enharmonic symbol

Posted: 16 Jan 2024, 13:13
by John Ruggero
You could put in the little parenthesized notes the first time an enharmonic appears and there only.That might be sufficient.

Re: Enharmonic symbol

Posted: 17 Jan 2024, 10:27
by benwiggy
Well, that's me told! :lol: I shall do nothing.

Re: Enharmonic symbol

Posted: 18 Jan 2024, 13:15
by John Ruggero
From the music engravers' Hippocratic oath: "First, do no harm."

Re: Enharmonic symbol

Posted: 18 Jan 2024, 15:55
by benwiggy
Clearly you weren't at the rehearsal! :lol:

Re: Enharmonic symbol

Posted: 19 Jan 2024, 05:49
by JJP
John Ruggero wrote: 18 Jan 2024, 13:15 From the music engravers' Hippocratic oath: "First, do no harm."
I thought it was “do no enharm.”