Looking at the photo below, the design is 2 different musical staffs with some notes. Now, I can’t read sheet music at all and I was curious, if you were to play the notes what might it sound like?
Is there any potential underlying meaning to it – a clever musical reference to something or just acoustical gibberish?
Well it’s in the key of B, and each graphic shows a two-note chord, each consisting of an F and an A flat but on different octaves.
I’d guess that it’s just a fanciful design, there’s no melody. Unless the letters of the notes stand for something?
EDIT: I missed that second chord on the left side, it’s a D flat and an F. I’m still guessing it’s gibberish because that second chord is tied back to… nothing!
Ivan
It’s actually a slur (not a tie) which means that the whole phrase should be played smoothly, or played with a legato. The slur being positioned on the rest instead of the first note probably means that the first note should be played smoothly as well, like the attack on the first note shouldn’t be too harsh.
I think this is impossible to play, because without the clef, you don’t know what the notes are (the unknown symbol is not a musical clef). It could be written in any one of the following clefs (which will result in a different note):
You could consider the unknown symbol as a double neutral clef, but then the key signatures wouldn’t make sense as the neutral clef is used for non-pitched percussion instruments.
It’s basically gibberish.
UNPRLD’s owner plays Clarinet, so Treble clef seems like a safe guess.
So it’d be what, D flat major?
Yeap you’re right!
I think it’s safe to say that it’s treble clef, since the first flat of the key signature starts on treble clef B. So either Db major or Bb minor
Going on this assumption, the notes F/Ab are the mediant and dominants of the Db major tonic chord, The tied notes at the end Db/F remain in the tonic chord, being the tonic and mediant notes. Since the note sequences never diverge from the tonic chord (which is also known as the home chord), it could be that the yo-yo was meant to feel like home. Playing with yo-yos are fun, there shouldn’t be conflict or tension, much like the chords/notes depicted.
…that or the yo-yo designer just really likes those notes
It’s the opening bar of Clair De Lune because it’s Eric Tranton’s favourite classical piece and he filmed a video to it with the yoyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYsEvEqyUYA
This has been an exciting ride.
I defer to your education for sure, it’s been over a decade since I’ve had any formal training in music and I’ve been doing my best to forget the theory side of it ever since.
This thread turned out to be really interesting!
Ivan.
Ah I see, but why would you want to do your best to forget the theory though?
Yeap, never expected that it was Clair De Lune. As a pianist, I’m disappointed I didn’t get it.
I just didn’t like it, didn’t like the study aspect or the testing that I had to do for piano competitions. I understand the value of it now, of course, but growing up I didn’t see any point. I found it absolutely impossible to read sheet music fluently (as you probably noticed in my first reply on this thread, LOL) while my sister and my friends took to it readily. I wanted to play, not study books about playing.
Fortunately I’ve always been very good at playing by ear and decent at improvising so that is how I learn new stuff. I haven’t tossed away ALL my theory and do enjoy picking up new ideas on the way different chords and scales work together, as it’s useful for writing. But pretty much everything related to music notation on the printed page is beyond my ability or patience so I’ve given up on that.
I know I’d be a better musician if I could grasp the knowledge but it just doesn’t seem to fit the way my brain prefers to work.
Ivan
So does anybody wanna take a stab at figuring out if the engraving on the YoyoPalace Code means anything next? I only did a quick search of morse code, but from what I gleamed without the dits it’s just going to be an ambiguous headache to figure out. That is if this is even supposed to be morse code.
Well it’s not Morse code, but I’d be curious to know if it’s some other kind of code and if so, what it says! It does look like it’s supposed to mean something.
Ivan
This just had me wondering about some of the other stuff on unknowns. Stuff like the PLSTC and Pickaxe are pretty easy to understand, but I thought the Kappa was kind of cool. It turns out the symbols on it are the in-universe writing from Dragon Ball used on scouters. I knew the Kappa was a Dragon Ball reference but had no idea that there was a canonical alphabet for these symbols. It spells out “spiral is unknown”.
Ohh I see. Honestly, I also can’t read sheet music fluently, it takes me a long time to figure out all the notes on the sheet.
Wow, that’s great! I can’t play by ear and I’m not good at improvising as well, so it actually takes me quite a while to pick up new things. Ohh that’s nice. I see.
Hahaha you’re more of the just do it kind. Studying the music would be too boring for you haha.
Hey, I just ordered one of these! 
Well, “too boring” is a kind way to put it but to be honest it’s most likely an issue of me being too lazy. 
Ivan
