[sdiy] B and H (was: PolyKorg Clone frontpanel)

[Charles Twist]

Isn't it something to do with the French for flat: bemol? At a guess.
Charles

At 11:19 11/05/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> > > 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.
>
>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* ?!)
>
>JH.