This is what happened to Jack and Dave.
If you were Jack and Dave, what would you do?
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2$\begingroup$ If I were Jack and Dave, and Jack and Dave were sharing a music stand, and that stand had a pencil, that pencil would write "- 3 -" above the group of last three black notes $\endgroup$– humnFeb 24, 2016 at 4:27
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$\begingroup$ Disclaimer: I used an online notation writer to get this score. $\endgroup$– LN6595Feb 24, 2016 at 17:03
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3$\begingroup$ Thank you for a tantalizing puzzle, I'll stop trying to decode the frequencies. Almost had something going with abRAcaDAbRa too. $\endgroup$– humnFeb 29, 2016 at 15:52
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$\begingroup$ What was the intended answer, if you're OK revealing it now that one has been selected? $\endgroup$– question_askerMar 1, 2016 at 17:33
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$\begingroup$ @question_asker I was thinking of mchoy25's answer, but hmmn's was even better. $\endgroup$– LN6595Mar 1, 2016 at 21:22
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run the other way for a(a) bee(b), they see(c) a(a) bee(b) see(c) a(a) beeeeeeeeee(b)
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Just to show what can happen when important ciphers get into the wrong hands, a partial decryption suggests that if Jack and Dave were me, what they would do is look for a lawyer.
What were Jack and Dave thinking!, entering dance bars with A minor. Time to face the music. Apologies to anyone unfamiliar, or too familiar, with music theory, and to the original intent of a yet-undeciphered interesting puzzle.
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$\begingroup$ I had a comment here once, but I had noticed all these things but hadn't managed to put them into this kind of narrative. Whether or not it's the intended answer, I love it. $\endgroup$ Feb 29, 2016 at 16:05
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$\begingroup$ Totally not what I had in mind... But I'm accepting it now. This answer beats my intended one hands down. Good work. $\endgroup$– LN6595Feb 29, 2016 at 23:33
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$\begingroup$ @LN6595 Please post your intended answer too. $\endgroup$– manshuMar 2, 2016 at 17:54
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1$\begingroup$ @manshu mchoy25 already got my intended answer. But this one is fantastic. $\endgroup$– LN6595Mar 2, 2016 at 20:33
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If we look at the notes, they are
abca bcab
We note that
The second bar has 5 beats, contradicting the common time (4 4) in the first bar. I therefore assume that the bar separates words
This leads me to think that
This is a cryptogram for "seas ease"
And if I were Jack and/or Dave I might
Up anchor and sail away. Or something nautical like that.
answered Feb 22, 2016 at 21:20
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1$\begingroup$ Presumably the minim in the second bar is significant. $\endgroup$– somebodyFeb 23, 2016 at 0:12