Jaunty staves
Day 1, November 2026 · Built with Claude
This is the Day 1 version, kept as it was. Day 2 develops it.
A sketch pad for music. Lay a staff down at any angle, put notes on it, write round them, then circle a phrase to hear it.
How it hears what you wrote
Nothing here reads handwriting. A staff is a ruler: each note is measured by how far along the staff it sits and how high, in the staff's own frame, so a tilted staff plays exactly as a level one would. What a mark looks like never matters. Pen marks are ink and stay silent; only notes placed with the note tool sound.
How it plays
Even plays the circled notes in order on a steady pulse. Spacing turns distance along the staff into time. Either way the phrase swells towards its middle and lingers at its ends, and louder notes are brighter. Notes stacked in one place sound together, and staves in the same loop start together.
Limits, for now
Treble clef, with B on the middle line. Sharps, flats and note values are ink and don't change the sound. Made for the iPad and Pencil: once the Pencil has touched the sheet, a resting palm is ignored. Your sheet is kept in this browser only.