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6-6 Klavar
by Cornelis Pot, 1972

Chromatic scale from C to C. C C#/Db D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb G G#/Ab A A#/Ab B C

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6-6 Klavar by Cornelis PotLike his better known Klavar notation, Pot’s 6-6 notation is oriented vertically and is read from top to bottom (as shown on the right). Pitches ascend horizontally from left to right like on a piano keyboard. Pot designed this notation to correspond to a two-level 6-6 keyboard that he built.

His standard staff is shown on the right, with seven lines spanning two octaves. Every third line is bold which helps differentiate them. There are conflicting accounts about which notes the lines represent. The bold lines may represent C#/Db as in the staff on the right, or they may represent C (as described by Albert Brennink in his Chromatic Notation, 1983).

 

Earliest documentation: 1972 (in an article in Klavar-Nieus, a Dutch newsletter)

Source: Directory of Music Notation Proposals, section/page: 13/68

Similar notations: Untitled by Henri Carcelle, Klavar, Mirck Version by Jean de Buur, Isomorph Notation by Tadeusz Wójcik, Klavar, Dekker Version by Antoon Dekker

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Chromatic scale from C to C in Untitled by Arnold Schoenberg C C#/Db D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb G G#/Ab A A#/Ab B C

Untitled by Arnold Schoenberg

Chromatic scale from C to C in Panot Notation by George Skapski C C#/Db D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb G G#/Ab A A#/Ab B C

Panot Notation by George Skapski

← Previous Two Notation Systems ←

Chromatic scale from C to C in Trilinear Music Notation by José A. Sotorrio C C#/Db D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb G G#/Ab A A#/Ab B C

Trilinear Notation by José A. Sotorrio

Chromatic scale from C to C in Chromatic 6-6 Notation by Johannes Beyreuther C C#/Db D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb G G#/Ab A A#/Ab B C

Chromatic 6-6 Notation by Johannes Beyreuther

Notation System Groups

  • Lines a Whole Step Apart, 5 Lines per Octave
  • Lines a Whole Step Apart, 4 or 3 Lines per Octave
  • Lines a Whole Step Apart, 6 Lines per Octave
  • Lines a Whole Step and Major 3rd Apart, 4 per Octave
  • Lines a Minor 3rd Apart, 3 or 4 Lines per Octave
  • Lines a Major 3rd Apart, 3 Lines per Octave
  • Lines a Major 3rd Apart, 2 Lines per Octave
  • Lines a Major 3rd Apart, 2 per Octave, Compact Staff
  • Lines a Tritone Apart, 2 per Octave, or 1 Line per Octave
  • 7-5 Line Pattern, 3, 5, or 6 Lines per Octave
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