Letter and A4

It does not seem like too much of a difference. Unless, you want to hang your head in shame or disgust over the local continued … wait I looked it up. It is not just something confined to USA, like our lack of metric sizing for bolts and nuts and all those things. Letter, the size, is the standard in 10 countries, mostly the Americas. A4 is the stand is the west of the world. I am familiar w with this issue because … well I do not remember why I got interested enough in the matter to have both sizes in stock . IF you want to have an “Office” sized paper the Letter or A4 are both nice sizes. If you want something nicely sized for notes. Then you want A5 and whatever they call the notecard size in the letter sized range. But here is the nice part of A4 and A5 sizes – an A5 is one half the size of an A4. So I can take the A4 nicely trim it in a paper cutter (of which we have a couple) and we would have two A5 bits of paper. Which I intend to do for the letters I hope to send out someday.

Is there a point to all of that? Nah, I just started to type on my first Letter sized bit of paper and this came tumbling out of my brain and onto the paper. And I am eyeing the sight of One Typed Page things that I have done on Al) paper and I have to run them through the paper cutters in order to have them fit in the 8 1/2 x 11 , shucks run them through the 8#x11 binder I keep them in.

How did our country come to keep the standard of Europe for musical notation, well mostly?

I think I will indulge in some Ted Lasso for, to steep in, some good old American and UK differences.

—- MichaelRpdx :: rkmm :: 2022-05-13

Friday the 13th? So far so good.

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