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Re: Pitch inflection
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Pitch inflection |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:26:12 +0100 |
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address@hidden writes:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, David Kastrup wrote:
>> > as closely as possible I don't want to substitute quarter-tone symbols. Is
>> > there a simple way to insert arrows in place of accidentals? Playback is
>> > not an issue.
>>
>> Quarter notes wouldn't work anyway since you'd not be able to
>> distinguish a quarter note up from e from a quarter note down from f.
>
> Really? The input { eih'1 feh'1 } seems to work for me, producing
> distinct "e half-sharp" and "f half-flat" notation even though in 24-EDO
> these are the same pitch.
Argh, right. Different note name. Should have taken E raised by a
quartertone versus E♯ flattened by a quarter tone.
_Those_ would be indistinguishable.
> It seems like just replacing the "half-sharp" and "half-flat" symbols
> with up and down arrows would be enough to satisfy the original
> poster's request.
See above.
--
David Kastrup