---------------------------------------- Re: Yin Feng - Shakuhachi January 19th, 2018 ---------------------------------------- I'm absolutely astounded that I found another shakuhachi player on gopher. Seriously, I'm in awe. I'll have to pull your gopher hole up on a different device to try and decypher your notation system. It didn't come through clearly in lynx. I just did a little search and it looks like some of the characters used for notation (the Katakana characters) are available in UTF-8. Let me give this a try: Notes: ロ - Ro ツ - Tsu レ - Re チ - Chi リ - Ri ヒ - Hi ウ - U イ - I ル - Ru コロ - Ko Ro ゴロ - Go Ro ヵラ - Ka Ra Decorations: メ - Meri ー - Breath mark ヽ - Repeated note ゠ - Song ends I'm not sure how to make reference the vertical speed changes yet, but we can figure things out as we go. And with that, using a vertical 66 column wide R->L format, and trying to take into account the japanese double-wide characters, here's a really simple children's song (I really hope this works): ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hinomaru ------------------------------------------------------------------ リ. ツ. .ヽ .ヽ チ. レ. .ツ .ヽ レ. チ. ー .ヽ リ. レ. .ヽ ー チ. チ. .ツ .ヽ レ. リ. .チ .ヽ ツ. ロ. ゠ .ヽ リ. ー ロ. .ヽ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Whew! That was a bit of work for even a simple song, but I really like the final look of it. Please, please, please work on gopher! If it does, I may transcribe a bunch of my music, including fun little tunes I improvise. (DIR) More Shakuhachi stuff here Yin Feng, you made my whole week!