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Inisfail
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Inisfail
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04/23/2004 8:13 am
Hey!

Why are at least swedish people using h instead of b in all kind of music situations? I haven't taken any lessons, but I heard a weird story that a swedish guy who had visited Austria in the early 1700 century brought some papers with him to sweden and when he translated them he didn't know if the b was a b or a h. Kinda stupid not to understand, but that guy was somekind founder of theoretical schoolarship in sweden so that affected everything that we have now here in the middle of the north..

Of course, the guy who told me that just wanted to make fun of me, but do anyone else know the real story? :mad:
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