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When I read that Finnish was a major seventh I was hoping that English would be a minor seventh or something even more subtly different. A minor 7th vs a minor 7 flat 5 etc.

Would be funny to create an elaborate system of notification tones that are only discernible by a trained musician

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> Would be funny to create an elaborate system of notification tones that are only discernible by a trained musician

Oh man, could this concept be turned into an esoteric programming language where to program you use a musical keyboard and all the symbols in your lang are different chords or intervals

Absolutely no visual feedback for extra pain

This reminds me of the conlang "solresol" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol)

Forgive me Mr. Ghost Pepper. I didn't take the ear training seriously enough in AP Music Theory, and now I can scarcely tell my eleventh chords apart when I'm listening to Charles Mingus!

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