The problem with indications like 2/3, it would seem to me, is that we have no notation for a *single* third (or two-thirds) note (as it were). Currently, AFAIK, the only way of notation 1 such would be to precede it with a 2-note rest and tie the whole together with a 3 over the tie. As close as I can notate this in ASCII: 3 --- % | Where % stands for a (say) quarter-note rest and | for an eighth-note (gosh, how quickly I adapt to N American usage - actually I can never remember whether it's a crotchet or a quaver whcih is a quarter-note...:-() Mats Norrman wrote: >This thread reminds me about a pianopiece by Eric Satie called >"Flabbydog" or something like that. The piece has 3 sections: first goes >in 74/2, the second in 88/4 and the last in 40/2. There you can talk about >unconventional! But it is common knowledge that Satie was a little >original... Downright bizarre if you ask me - and so shy that he was known to leave a dinner party and go home, rather than ask to use the washroom/toilet (more usage). Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]