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TIL the octave numbers for musical notes change at C, not A. E.g., it goes A3, A#3, B3, and then C4 instead of C3. Likewise, a semitone below A3 is G#3, not G#2.
Context is that G#3 is a natural pitch for my voice with decent resonance.
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Well, C is Doh!, a deer,ā¦ the start of the whole thing.
Now, why C, to which Ti brings us back, wasnāt noted āAā in the first place is a mystery to me. Guessing the Google can help.
So is your default pitch A flat 3 or A flat 2?
TIL. I had always assumed that do re mi was based on any old tonic, but wikipedia tells me that is can be āfixed doā (C = do) or āmovable doā (what I had assumed).
Also Isaac Newton used a fixed do system with colors of the rainbow rather than do re mi, with C = red.
A flat 3
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Well C-major is the most basic scaleā¦ on a piano all the white keys starting with C. (C-D-E-F-G-A-B)
But of course you can have a movable do. D-major would be D-E-F#-G-A-B-C#, as an example.
As for why C is C and not Aā¦ dunno. The lowest note on a piano is an A, but I gotta think the names of the notes are older than the modern 88-key piano. I might be wrong though.
I tried a bit of looking last night on the note names, and note naming by letter is much older than pianos. I wasnāt able to find a definitive answer to the question though.
In Gregorian Chant, there were traditionally eight different modes (like the modern scale but with different order of half-step/step), four sets of two. Each set had an authentic mode and a plagal mode (the fourth below). The first mode, Dorian, corresponded to todayās white notes on the keyboard starting with D. The related plagal mode Hypodorian started on A. The other three sets were each up a step/half-step from the previous set.
This meant that what we now call A (A2?) was the lowest note out of the eight different modes. Boethius in 510 CE published a treatise on music De Musica, where he ascribes A through O (J wasnāt around in those days) to the 14 notes needed to cover the 8 modes, starting from lowest to highest.
In more modern times, they added another octave (a through g lower case), then ditched H through O to keep A through G repeated several times.
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Yeah, I thought that had to be true so it didnāt seem like that could possibly be the right explanation, but I couldnāt think of any other reason. 
I donāt believe in insurance. I consider it a form of gambling.
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So, insurance is for suckers??? And doubly so for flight insurance. amirite???
Only if gambling is for suckers.
Oh, Neddy.
I actually worked with an IT guy once who didnāt believe in insurance. He had it for his car because he had to, but his theory was that if he died his church would take care of his family. So he had zero life insurance. Now I donāt know what his church was all about but assuming theyād pony up to raise his three kidsā¦ itās bold.
If anyone is interested, here are 2 good videos from David Bennett about the names of notes a the origins of flats and sharps
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TIL the keyboard shortcut for āpage breakā is CTRL+ENTER. Iām pretty sure it used to be ALT+I+B and Iāve been aggravated for a while that it didnāt work.
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For Excel (ALT+I+B)?
Word (CTRL+ENTER)?
These are work for me in those programs. Not opening up Word right now to check, though.
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Yeah, I should have clarified: I was talking about Word. I canāt say Iāve never used page break in Excel - I probably just go to page layout and design it there - but I donāt recall having used a shortcut for it there.
And I know everyone here knows this, but if thatās the case, then fair enough, they donāt need insurance.
The tradeoff here would be how you feel about the chances of an insurance company providing financial compensation for your family in the event of your death, vs.your local church. I know where Iād land on that one.
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I have a lot of several-page exhibits that I save as PDFs. Some get longer annually, necessitating new or updated page breaks. Oh, I could keep shrinking the fontā¦
In Word, it seems that the page break is a separate ācharacterā on the file, while in Excel, the page break is part of the formatting, not seen unless you want to see them, like good children.
A similar example is the way each program handles headers and footers. In Excel, they are extra things seen only when printing or print reviewing or that āPage Break Reviewā view. In Word, they are there, and you can change them as you type the body, and Page 1 can differ from the subsequent pages.