John Walsh wrote:
I once bought a simple plastic flute during a trip to China once. It looks like a recorder but has six holes, just like an Irish whistle (the same fingering, too). The accompanying note that demonstrates the fingering uses a similar (maybe the same?) notation. I don't know whether it is a commonly used notation or one reserved for the flute. What I could make up from the pictures (unfortunately, I don't read Chinese) is that '1' probably denotes the root of the scale (an F in the case of my flute). Notes from the higher octave have a dot above the number, those from the lower octave a dot below.Second question: I have a Chinese book of flute tunes, written out much like abc, but in numbers, not letters. If I could read the Chinese introduction, I probably wouldn't have to ask but...does anybody here know anything about this notation? Is it particular to the flute, or is it a general music notation?
Does this help at all?
bert
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