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TIL There are music typewriters and they came in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and mechanisms

musicprintinghistory.org/music

Dion Moult @thinkMoult

@cypnk nowadays the best music typesetting software I can find is at lilypond.org - I wonder how much of the techniques were transcribed into code.

@thinkMoult Probably a strong continuation of the concepts. By necessity, notes can only take certain permutations