Talk:Eighth note

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"eighth note (United States) or a quaver (rest of world)" is not true. In Sweden we use "åttondelsnot" (eighth-part-note). It's probably the same for the rest of Scandinavia and possibly also Germany, (music terms in Sweden is, most often, of German origin). // Solkoll 13:27, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I think whoever wrote that meant "rest of the English-speaking world". America, like Sweden, takes much of its musical vocabulary from German, because of the prevalence of German expatriots in American orchestras of the 19th century. They also call the leader of the orchestra the "concert master", from Konzertmeister. --Doric Loon 20:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I realized the same problem, so I was bold and changed 'rest of world' to 'Commonwealth'. Deltabeignet 03:58, 27 January 2006 (UTC)