Re: An interesting accidental glyph

[Urs Liska]

Am 29. April 2019 00:50:18 MESZ schrieb Andrew Bernard <address@hidden>:
>Very amusing. But in all seriousness, what is this thing? I am unable
>to
>find any evidence for the existence of this symbol outside of
>Emmentaler. I
>cant find it in SMuFL, and that has hundreds of rare accidentals. My
>limited imagination finds it hard to understand how you can alter a
>pitch
>in two directions at once. Unless this is some sort of vibrato sign.
>But
>would any musicians know how to interpret it?

I don't know if I"be actually encountered such s thing, but I could very well 
imagine it being used as an indicator for the range of either a tremolo/vibrato 
or aleatoric pitch modulation. It would probably be used in conjunction with 
e.g. a wavy line afterwards.

Urs

>
>Andrew