I. Oppenheim wrote: >Here in continental Europe, we have Euros, kilometers, >liters, celsius, and 1/128th notes, and we do not >understand anything more exotic than that...
Goodness, and they used to accuse us Brits of being insular... Anyway it's litres, as I'm sure your francophone neighbours would agree. Actually it's quite interesting that this group has always used fractions to discuss note lengths, despite the fact that at least half of the regular contributors are British. Presumably that's because Chris Walshaw used this in his original formulation of the abc standard. There's also been a ding dong battle on this subject over on uk.music.folk. A new newsgroup has been proposed, uk.music.notation, and the argument is over whether quarter notes and the like will be permitted. Personally, I couldn't give a monkey's. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
