The last new thing I did was decipher the music for a Playford dance from the original script of 1696. The hardest part was figuring out that the little circles were not noteheads, they were the 'flags' of eighth notes. The business end of the eighth note was at the other end.

I got my start with old notation at a wonderful early-music workshop, the Texas Toot.

Just to show you that we haven't got everything all figured out -- I tried to find that page again, and Google couldn't find it.