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Octaves

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Gnomon - time to move on

As far as I can tell, this system is shifted by two octaves from the standard method of writing octaves used in Europe:

C, is three octaves below middle C.
C is two octaves below middle C.
c is one octave below middle C.
c' is middle C.
c'' is one octave above middle C.

and so on.


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