Sixty-fourth note twenty-eighth note—otherwise known as the "semihemidemisemiquaver" —and even shorter notes, are occasionally found. Sixty-fourth note In music notation, a sixty-fourth note (American), or hemidemisemiquaver or semidemisemiquaver (British), sometimes called a half-thirty-second note , is a note played for half the duration of a thirty-second note (or demisemiquaver), hence the name. It first occurs in the late 17th century and, apart from rare occurrences of hundred twenty-eighth notes (semihemidemisemiquavers) and two hundred fifty-sixth notes (demisemihemidemisemiquavers), it is the shortest value found in musical notation . Sixty-fourth notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight note stem with
On an Odd Note the story selection as a chaotic mix of genres, noted that the book "is unified by the ever-captivating Kersh personality." Boucher concluded that while "Mr. Kersh can (and often does) write a trite or inept story, . . . he is incapable of writing a dull sentence." Everett F. Bleiler found "On an Odd Note" to be "a collection of Kersh's more important fantastic stories. . . . Good narratives, with unusual detail." On an Odd Note On an Odd Note is a collection of short stories written by Gerald Kersh, published as a paperback original by Ballantine Books in