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by jan_Inkepa 1512 days ago
>Applause for the effort but I doubt that this will become popular. Music notation has been a certain way for hundreds of years for musicians around the world – a notation with the universal legibility of mathematics.

This system is really compatible with the standard one though? It's essentially a visual skin.

Removing the middle line is kinda nice - I remember as a kid having trouble and counting lines a lot to figure out what not something was.

The sharp/flat notation seems pretty week though/visually unclear?

I'm not sold on the the numbers in the clef symbols - I don't find it so helpful, and don't have a very intuitive sense of what the number of the octaves are. Especially because the rest of the notation is quite visual/geometric, it's odd to see it resorting to adding numbers here (where the normal notation leaves them out unless the clefs are in non-standard octaves).