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THE plea of Lord Brabazon in NATURE of May 16, p. 554, will be strongly supported by thousands of would-be players to whom the complications of clefs, key changes and accidentals have proved an impassable barrier, and by the parents of many otherwise musical children who have given up their pianoforte studies in despair because of these difficulties. On the plea of the greatest good for the greatest number, therefore, Lord Brabazon's appeal ought to receive most careful and unbiased consideration, and not least from those musicians whose real desire it is to extend the art of music-making among ordinary people. Furthermore, the use of a special form of stave for the piano and organ would not be so great a departure from tradition as might at first be supposed, for is it not on a par with the provision of special clefs for some of the instruments in the orchestra? (Incidentally, why must we continue to use an H to denote a C clef, and a C for an F clef?)
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WOOD, K. Simplification of Musical Notation. Nature 149, 640 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149640b0
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