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The rendered output looks like this:

It even sounds half-decent.

I would also like to congratulate German for having the most fucked up notation system, according to the LilyPond documentation. πŸ™ƒ

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As I understand it, yes. The b rotundum and b quadratum. I actually have no idea where the natural sign comes from though, now that I think about it

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

According to this video, the natural sign has the same origin as the sharp

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 4 days ago

What I'm taking from this is that if we had invented Western musical notation in 2016 we would undoubtably have used πŸ…±for everything