[sdiy] B and H

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "jhaible" <jhaible at debitel.net>
Subject: [sdiy] B and H (was: PolyKorg Clone frontpanel)
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 11:19:57 +0200

Hi Jürgen,

> > > Also, the top temperament adjustment should be B!
> >
> > That's what's on the original panel - maybe
> > Juergen likes it more "international"? ;-)
> > IMHO there's nothing wrong with it ...
> 
> Magnus is right. B is right (as in A, B, C ...).
> H is the fault of some monk who mistook a B for an H
> when he copied sheet music centuries ago,
> and this error was propagated in Germany (Europe?)
> ever since. Or so I've been told.

Europe. Your correct, it is a original transcription error. The whole Europe
is/was effected. So why not get your front-panel right? ;O)

Here you see an example of what you can blame the monks for. Normally I think
well of monks when I think of Trappist beer (read as real beer).

> But I've learned it as H, and every time I see a B
> my brain interprets it as B_flat. (This is is the
> *real* bad thing, that they assigned the letter B
> to something different afterwards. Anybody
> knows why on earth they did *that* ?!)

Well, this is over my head since I just exhausted my music theory knowledge
with the B/H issue. I too learned H when i was taugth piano (which I eventually
gave up due to side effects of my medicine at the time).

Cheers,
Magnus - needs to relearn things