Chapter 231
Although what Yun Yiheng said was very impolite, he was stating the facts.
Western instruments use staff notation, which Shen Bijun, being Yiming, could certainly understand. Many Eastern instruments use numbered musical notation, which anyone with a basic understanding of music could also understand.
For the most part, the musical scores for the ancient qin are now written in numbered musical notation.
However, the score for this piece... was extracted specifically from a rare book, and only scholars studying the ancient qin would truly be able to comprehend it.
The method of notation in this qin score, called the reduced-character notation, had been passed down from the Tang Dynasty.
It uses some strange symbols and characters to record the finger techniques, distinguishing between left and right hands, appearing extremely complicated; the average person would probably not recognize them.
Yun Yiheng's area of study was the ancient qin, specifically focusing on these matters.