[Trombone-l] Trombone notation

[Wayne Dyess]

Are you a Mac user?

If so, there is a great little dashboard widget that is neat.  It  
includes a piano that spans 5 octaves, and tells you what octave the  
note is in, such as you mention here.  C3, A3, etc.

Very cool.

Wayne


Here's a really cool Dashboard widget.  It calculates tap tempo,  
notes to Hz, hard disk space to time remaining, and other cool stuff.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/bigbluelounge.html

=========

On Jan 26, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Jeff Thompson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been reading Kurt Dietrich's book on jazz trombonists. In it,  
> he often refers to the playing range of various trombonists. In  
> discussing the highest note they played on some record, he mentions  
> notes like G3 or Bb2 or D3.
> I guess the 2 or 3 helps determine which octave a note is in. But I  
> am not familiar with this notation system.
> Can someone explain it, or refer me to a pertinent web page?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff Thompson
> _______________________________________________
> Trombone-l mailing list
> Trombone-l at maillists.samford.edu
> http://maillists.samford.edu/mailman/listinfo/trombone-l