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From: flee@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Subject: Re: ascii music notation
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>     /      O                                   |         boba@gagme.wwa.com

Chris D Koeberle:
>Quick!  Name the problem with this one!  :)  But what if we used P and o 
>for open, and , and ' for closed?  Sure, it's not perfect...  But it 
>could work, and with a little practice, even be readable...

Well, I played with some ideas, and here's what I've got:

                                       /|             |
--|)--------------------|-------------//|------|------|----------|--|-------
--/--4------------------|---|---|----//-|------|--<--_|----------|--|-----|-
-/|------|---|---|---|--|---|---|---/---|---|--|--(--------------|--|-----|-
((,\-4---|---|---|---|--|--*|--*|---|--*|---|--|---------,*-----"---|-----|-
-\|/----*|--*|--"|--"|--|--*'--*'--"|:-*'--"|--|-,*--,*.-|--,o------|-b,*"--
  J    -*' -*'  "   "              "       "     |*- |   |  |          |
                                                 |   |   |  |          |
                                                 |   |__='  |          |

The only thing I'm really happy with is the G clef :).  The rest of it
is only vaguely readable, and there are some unsolvable problems
(like, you can't do key signature.)

I think if you must do ascii music, don't try to compress a staff into
five lines.

Anyway, here's a couple of G clefs for anyone that wants them.

      |\          .
      |/          |\
------|-----------|/-----
     /|           |
----/-|----------/|------
   / _|_        / |
--/-/-|-\------/-_|_-----
 ( (  |  \    / / | \
--\-\_|)-/----\-\_|) )---
   \__|_/      \__|_/
------|-----------|------
      |          \|
    `-'