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Dutch Engineer Cornelis Pot, 64, arrived in Manhattan last week with a slightly different solution. For Pot, the old scale was still serviceable: the trouble lay in the way it was put to paper, with a confusion of sharps, flats and keys. In his Klavarscribo method ("marvelously simple, simply marvelous," says Pot happily), all of that is eliminated by indicating notes (and measures) on vertical lines that correspond to the keys of the piano, black notes for black keys, white for white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Problem of Style | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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