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52 Questions

What modern innovations have been/are being made for the piano?

Does tuning music to A = 432 Hz versus A = 440 Hz have a measurable effect on listeners?

How can I slow down a YouTube video I'm trying to analyze or transcribe?

What criteria does ABRSM use in assigning piano music to each grade?

Where did "The Real Book" originally come from?

What is the relationship between where and how a vibrating string is activated?

What does the chord notation X/Y ("slash chord") mean?

How are editorial additions/changes to a score indicated?

What is the origin and original meaning of "tonic", "supertonic", "mediant", etc.?

What are the acoustics of brass instrument pedal tones?

How did the ancient Greeks notate their music?

Am I too old? Is it too late?: A guide to a popular question [duplicate]

What does it mean to "play what is not written"?

Spurious note in "Für Elise" (D in measure 76)?

Did continuo players consider figured bass as "interval symbols" or "chord symbols"?

Does the chord-symbol spelling of a polychord have musical meaning?

What are brass instrument "pedal tones" and "false tones", and how are they different?

Should the comping instrument ever double the bass player?

Which came first: the dot or the tie?

What is "Young's modulus", and how does it relate to guitar?

What are brass instrument "false notes" and how are they played?

Did Chopin use hairpins (adjacent crescendo and decrescendo) to indicate rubato rather than dynamics?

When did Stradivarius become "Stradivarius!"

What is the proper shorthand notation for a multi-measure chord tremolo?

Why do guitarists specialize on particular techniques?

General term to cover piano fingerings, trombone slide positions, Theremin hand positions, etc

How can I render "uneven" tuplets in ABC notation?

How does changing a guitar string's tuning affect its timbre?

Come to think of it, who did put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop?

When did trumpet mutes come into use?