"Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
Blow the spirit-stirring harp like anything!"

W.S.Gilbert

Laurie Griffiths said -

>An instruction to play a note on fret 9 of the G string instead of the open
>E string is musically relevant.

My concertina doesn't have E or G strings and I'm not playing top E on the G 
string of my fiddle for anyone.

>A difference between two pieces of notation is musically relevant if and
>only if it means they should sound different.

This and the example imply that the instrument being played is relevant.  
Wouldn't it be best to exclude instrument specific notation from abc?  It 
could get very messy if you don't.

Bryan Creer

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