At 01:43 PM 12/15/00 +0000, Martti Savijoki wrote: >I did it, but no, it's not about any system. I was just mixing the >"A"s... Actually our system in Finland goes like this (a1 is the >american A4): >...A2 (subcontra a), A1 (contra a), A (big a), a (small a), a1 (one. >lined a), a2, a3, a4...
That system (or something very similar) is also still used in some quarters in the US; it's what I was taught as an undergraduate student, back in the dark ages, and I still run across it (one of my doctoral-level theory teachers OK'd its use in my dissertation). It's not as common as the other system anymore - many feel it's too piano-keyboard-centered - but I like it....
Leslie, who gave her last final yesterday - Aural Skills I (mercy!)
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