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On Wednesday, 29. March 2006 18:22, Thorsten Wilms wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:57:15PM +0200, Atte Andr?? Jensen wrote:

> > >My real point is: I believe the octave names to be arbitrary.

>

> I've read once it's one octave difference between some brands.

> Someone on #lad said yamaha is one octave off from about everyone

> else. I guess that would be one octave up. Depends on if the first

> octave is 0 or 1(?).

>

> > Then, if I'm writing an application and want to conform to the

> > majority of apps, what do you and others here find the most usual.

> > Let's take midinote 60 (sits on the middle of my evolution

> > keyboards), what would you call that? C5?

>

> My Korg M1 and GEM S3 deem it a C4.

> AFAIR, so does Cubase.

On my Yamaha S30 it's C3. So the range of a piano is A-1 to C7.

This is also the notation used by rosegarden and muse...
    Dominic