Re: what about simplifying music notation?

[David Kastrup]

Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:

> 2011/3/14 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> The _only_ non-fringe (and you
>> might debate that) instrument I know that has controls _deliberately_
>> designed around a chromatic scale (note that string instruments have
>> their controls dictated by physics) is the chromatic button accordion.
>>
>> Every _other_ instrument, even woodwinds and percussion, has its
>> controls designed around a diatonic scale, and where that scale is not C
>> major, the instrument is often written down in transposed notation.
>
> Let me add Stanley Jordan's guitar tuned by fifths which looks fairly
> chromatic to me.

What about "_deliberately_ designed around a chromatic scale (note that
string instruments have their controls dictated by physics)" did you not
understand?

-- 
David Kastrup