I use Barfly, and really like its intonation options.  Just intonation is particularly 
well-suited to the bulk of the stuff out there in abc (european-based traditional and 
early music,diatonic, doesn't go modulating all over the place....), but it has to be 
based on the tonic note you are actually using.   D major and E dorian are NOT the 
same scale at all!  

The equation of key signature with key or tonality is based on the modern pre-eminence 
of keyboards, frets, and such.  Folks just assume that there are only 12 
(equally-tempered) notes to choose from.  The result is the loss of a lot of the 
flavor in music, IMO.

Dan Gellert
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