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(1) LIKE everything else which has grown up as a result of an evolutionary process, the present musical notation1 has imperfections ; yet it remains superior to our ordinary orthography. It is universally accepted, and there is nothing in it corresponding to the English 'ough' sounds, or to, for example, the differences in the French and Italian pronunciations of 'un' and 'le'.
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NATURE, 149, 554 (1942).
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HARRISON, V. Simplification of Musical Notation. Nature 149, 733–734 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149733e0
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