The rendered output looks like this:
It even sounds half-decent.
I would also like to congratulate German for having the most fucked up notation system, according to the LilyPond documentation. π
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Iirc the sharp and flat sign also origin in these 2 Bs, right?
As I understand it, yes. The b rotundum and b quadratum. I actually have no idea where the natural sign comes from though, now that I think about it
According to this video, the natural sign has the same origin as the sharp
What I'm taking from this is that if we had invented Western musical notation in 2016 we would undoubtably have used π ±for everything