Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee Users Forum

I knew I should have posted this to the forum. I'm still not sure if it will work, but I'd been working on a Samchillian clef for some time, since Leon haphazardly mentioned it on his website quite a while ago. Every time I'm on the phone with a customer lately, I find myself doodling. A good third of them turned out to be samchillian clefs. I'm worried it looks too much like a del signo, but I hope that the steam iron pointer in the middle makes it different enough.

http://www.1up.com/do/imageDisplay?id=3406751

*The new link works, my previous attempt at img - I don't think it did.*

In addition, I was asked the 'why do we still use five lines' question. I would say that the reason we use five lines for conventional notation is that it keeps too many notes from looking like one another.

I have commonly heard it said, mostly about Tetris, that we tend to only remember seven things at a go, and that's why there are only seven pieces in Tetris, and phone numbers tend to be seven digits - I think that's Amerocentric oversimplification. I think seven is a good number and may work for the general populace, but any wind player remembers a lot more things in a group than that. (And four of the seven Tetris pieces are two reflected pairs.)

On the other hand, if there were, say seven or more lines in conventional notation, I would worry that a C and an E look too much alike, lost in the interior like a jungle party without their native guide. Better that we have ledger lines and notes look unique than having to second guess a note. I know it would totally screw up my sightreading.

For Samchillian, I suspect that if one had used more lines from day one, it might not matter as much, since a new instrument might form new mental associations.

If this gets used as a movable clef, the steam iron points to MV+0.

very good!

It's fun to learn more internet stuff. Yay for me. Here's the clef, hopefully posted in the message for once.

can the point of the iron be to the RIGHT toward the "Notes"?
picky i know, but it would help with the MV_0 line i think

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I'll have to pick at it a bit, but I had already discarded that idea once because it made it harder to see what the pointy thing in the middle was. The slope of the S and the curve of the iron tended to visually merge too much - especially at the size that a clef is usually written. Perhaps if I made the Steam Iron larger...

It doesn't look so bad the other way.



The swirly squiggle on the right is a guide that I did in CadStd. I was hoping I could actually do it in some flavor of CAD, but the variable line width and the thingamabobs on the ends proved my undoing. Sure, I'll learn more CAD, but at a certain point it's just faster to whip out a pen and *gasp* draw the thing already. I made this one a little more tall and slender so the iron and the S didn't merge visually. I do like my line widths on my original better, now that I'm seeing both of them at the same time, but I shouldn't obsess about it.

I like the one on the Left
Very good Work sir

Thanks. I'm more comfortable with the righthanded point now that I got it right.



That's on a Fisher-Price Doodle Pro. (Hee Hee.) I also have a silly picture of Vernon and Corey from Living Color on my blog using the same DoodlePro.