source file: m1525.txt Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 22:56:29 -0400 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1524 From: Dr_Orient > Topic No. 2 > > Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 08:46:23 -0500 > From: Gary Morrison > To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu > Subject: Re: Experimental 19-tone keyboard > Message-ID: <35F2922A.6548B175@texas.net> > > > I have nearly completed my custom MIDI keyboard ( final year electronic project > > at university ). > > Neat! Out of curiosity, which university? > > > I want to know if there is any preference as to what MIDI note number > > coresponds to each key. > > I'm not personally aware of any such standard. Although if you want to > maintain A=440Hz as an absolute-pitch standard, then perhaps it might make sense > to make that be the common note. > It is my understanding that General MIDI starts at C-1 being labeled MIDI Note number 0, extending to G9 being labeled MIDI Note number 127 (Note: the 88-key range of a piano keyboard, by these criteria, extends from A0{an octave and a sixth above C-1} to C8, with C4 corresponding to Middle C). MIDI Note numbers may be extended higher than 127, but I have not encountered examples of them being extended on the low end. Any observations from more experienced readers?