ThumLine notation system

Just came across this as I was surfing today (I was actually looking for kitchen knives...don't know how this one popped up!).

Can't see it catching on, but an interesting read nevertherless

Scary. Half agree with it but it's presuming (quite wrongly for percussion instruments and pianos) that the notes are the same physical distance apart. The good thing about Western Notation is that the physical distance between C-D is the same as E-F and they both move up by one step.

One a guitar, sax or something similar, I could semi-understand it but having looked at all sorts of medieval notation at uni, I'd have to say that there's a reason that we've come to what we've got today and why it has not changed in any fundamental way for the past 400 years. IMHO!

Which is exactly the same in standard notation.

Six lines is too many to take in automatically.

What's wrong with the current system?

I just got more and more baffled as I moved down the page.

Same here, I think quantum physics is much simpler.

I gave up just after the bit sbhoa mentioned.

This notation is too restrictive. I wouldn't mind if it contradicted all the malign influences of the piano, but it doesn't go far enough. Of course the distance between C and D is different from that between E and F in the ears and physically on many instruments, but what this notation does not represent is the possibility of making F# differ from Gb etc., which is present on nearly all orchestral instruments (also on clavichord). IMO, the flexibility of present day staff notation, with its 35 pitch classes, is a good compromise between the huge flexibility of the acoustic spectrum and the practical limits imposed by the human brain.