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RT
> Jon--
> There were some harp tablatures devised, to the best of my limited knowledge,
> by 16th c. Spanish
> composers and, I think, the Welsh. Sorry I can't be more specific, but surely
> someone else on the list has
> more useful info.
>> To those on the Lute List who wonder why this harp related question is sent
>> to you as well as the harplist, it is because you all have some experience
>> with alternate notations/tabulations.
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>> I'm looking at years of collection of vocal and instrumental music and
>> trying to figure a way to make a sort of "fake book" for the harp. Lute
>> tabulation is relative to the strings and frets, so isn't key dependant. The
>> harp has strings tuned to fixed notes, and therefore the staff notation is
>> key dependant - as each string has a fixed pitch and there are no frets. I'd
>> like to set a notation readable for harp that is pitch independant, set the
>> levers for the key and start on the chosen tonic. The best I've come up with
>> so far is to use a full grand staff without a clef, but that still has the
>> readability problem of the "notes on the lines" and the "notes on the
>> spaces". I guess one answer would be to make two copies of each piece, one
>> with the tonic on a line and one with it on a space. Any other ideas?
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>> Best, Jon
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