Word: musical note/tone

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   Andrew December 10, 2021

   This seems like a good idea. We have words for individual pitches {yu}, {bIm} etc. within an octave {romta'} or scale {yutlhegh}, and we can discuss those pitches as being high {Ham} or low {pun} but we don't have a word for a pitch in the abstract.

   A "note" in the sense of a grapheme or written mark transcribing an individual pitch or musical event is probably a {QoQ ngutlh}.

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      Doug July 2, 2023

      I agree. In talking about music, I've run into the problem of not having a simple way to refer to a single audible tone / playable pitch.

      I would note for sake of clarity that if you strum a stringed instrument, you will produce a group of sounds which taken together might be a [i]chord[/i], but I would not call that a note. If you pluck a string, strike a marimba, or hit a piano key, you will produce a single pitch, commonly called in English a note.

      If we get note though, a ghom might work. Whether or not it is 'ey or 'eybe', or 'eyHa' is up to the listener.

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      Doug July 2, 2023

      I agree. In talking about music, I've run into the problem of not having a simple way to refer to a single audible tone / playable pitch.

      I would note for sake of clarity that if you strum a stringed instrument, you will produce a group of sounds which taken together might be a /chord/, but I would not call that a note. If you pluck a string, strike a marimba, or hit a piano key, you will produce a single pitch, commonly called in English a note.

      If we get note though, a /klingon for note/ ghom might work. Whether or not it is 'ey or 'eybe', or 'eyHa' is up to the listener.

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         Doug July 2, 2023

         Sorry for the double comment. Website error. Feel free to remove one or the other. They say the same thing.