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Subject:    Re: Possibly silly question =?utf-8?Q?but=E2=80=A6?=
From:       David Rogers <davidandrewrogers () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-11-28 19:47:51
Message-ID: s0elfel2rh4.fsf () gmail ! com
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That's  quite an honour - thanks! Though for myself I'd have to 
rank many other posts higher, mainly ones in which someone creates 
a brilliant/elegant solution to a problem.

Leaving a blank space in what's  normally the clef area tends to 
make it look as if something is missing; the three letters do fill 
the gap. And (I  hadn't thought of this part) I  suspect that the 
frequent use of all-caps italic is intended to make the thing look 
more like a "proper clef" - the treble and bass clefs are curly 
and usually have contrasting stroke width - and if that's  the 
reasoning, then some kind of "copperplate" style would be a better 
fit than the edged-pen style I've sometimes seen.

BUT - "Proper clefs" are functional, and T A B isn't. Since a 
guitar-tab staff represents strings, I'd suggest that a real 
proper guitar tab clef could be something that shows what tuning 
is being used. But maybe that's  problematic for other reasons, and 
I  can't even play guitar, so I'll be quiet now.

David RAndrew Bernard <andrew.bernard@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello David,
>
> I feel compelled to say this is the best post I have ever seen 
> on this list, on any topic! Marvellous.
>
> As an aside, I find the TAB symbol just particularly dreadful. 
> But I often wonder why tablature even needs it - surely it is 
> obvious that 
> what follows is tab, and it does not indicate relative pitch. 
> Well, I am not a guitarist.
>
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 28/11/2020 1:27 pm, David Rogers wrote:
>>
>> If those letters were human, they'd each be wearing a fancy red 
>> dress. And also a fancy blue dress at the same time, with a big 
>> metallic-gold 
>> sash. And they'd have their hair in ringlets, and pinned in 
>> their hair they'd each have two peonies in full bloom. And 
>> every time you played 
>> the guitar, they would sing, in Spanish and Ukrainian and Igbo, 
>> each one singing all three languages at once, with different 
>> lyrics. And it 
>> would be strangely glorious, and for this you would be the envy 
>> of all your friends. Until you discovered that along with the 
>> dresses and the 
>> hair and the flowers, they're vain and egotistical, constantly 
>> preening and showing off and trying to outdo each other, and 
>> once they 
>> start singing they won't shut up.
>>
>> So it's  probably a good thing they're just letters. :)
>>



-- 
David Rogers

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