Musical Mystery Cover Of G.b. KeVIII

Hi all,
Attached is an image of a G.B. KEVIII cover bearing the 1½d stamp with control A-36 and cylinder 2 no dot. Posted 11th December 1936, which was the day after he abdicated as King..
No mysteries there but what intrigues us is the music notation in the top left of the envelope. It is definitely written for a violin, and we have not seen musical scores for that instrument. Trying to play it on a piano, it sounded like a fingering exercise. But could it be possible that whoever drew that on the envelope had chosen an appropriate piece of music relating to either the King, or the abdication?

We have seen another envelope from the same source bearing the ½d and 1d stamps both with control and cylinder numbers also with music notations at top left but different notes.

Is there anyone out there who either has, or has seen anything similar, or can make sense of the music?
Regards
Ron and Eunice.

Hi: The only thing I could come up in relation to Music and KEVIII:
(Wikipedia)
Crown Imperial is an orchestral march by the English composer William Walton. Walton derived the march's title from the line "In beawtie berying the crone imperiall" from William Dunbar's poem "In Honour of the City of London".[1]






The march was first performed at the coronation of King George VI in 1937 and was substantially revised in 1953. Walton originally composed the march for performance at the coronation of King Edward VIII, scheduled for 12 May 1937, but Edward abdicated in 1936. The coronation was held on the scheduled day, with Edward's brother being crowned instead. Crown Imperial was also performed at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, along with another Coronation March written by Walton, Orb and Sceptre.[2] Crown Imperial was performed more recently as a recessional piece to the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on 29 April 2011.


also Edward Elgar:Coronation KEVII
https://www.biographyonline.net/mus...d-elgar.html
https://www.allmusic.com/compositio...mc0002357553

Very interesting cover both historically and with the musical writing.
I've never seen a cover with writing like that, it is very unique.

Perf 12
Many thanks for that, which we have passed on to our friend in the UK who has the cover. He will be delighted with the suggestion as he wanted the music to relate to either the King or the Coronation or something.

Modern stamps. It is not actually unique as we have seen another with different stamps and musical notes on a website. It would be good to come up with more covers for our friend to get his teeth into.

Regards
Ron and Eunice.

I can,t read music but assuming that upward sweeps are rising notes then my guess is the music is The national anthem; God Save the King. I can't decipher the recipients name but the letter was sent from A large south coast resort Bournemouth or it's neighbour Poole, to a small place four or 5 miles east, again on the coast and facing the Isle of Wight. According to the Gibbons specialised stamp catalogue 2 control numbers were used A36 and A37.

Ron, Eunice

Like you, I've played the music (on the guitar) and it just strikes me as fingering. Do you have any of the other covers to show us? Maybe there is a link?

It's dreadful handwriting by the way. I feel sorry for the sorting office staff. I had an aunt who lived in Barton-on-Sea.

Looks like ?....Wainright

Probably "Wainwright".

Shame that he didn't use the satirical ditty of the time, "Hark the herald angels sing, Mrs Simpson's got our King".

Alexander Wainwright ?
Jongarth ?
Vectis road
Barton on Sea

My wife, who is a violinist, couldn't shed any light on the significance of the music though she did say these are very high notes, as the "8va"above the notes means "up an octave."

Dennis

Musical Cryptography:Lot's of interesting things...
Edward Elgars music cipher:

Alternating Sixths
The discovery of a 6 x 6 music checkerboard cipher draws renewed attention to Elgar's use of the music interval known as the sixth within the Enigma Theme. At Rehearsal 1 the Enigma Theme is played in sixths by the first and second violins. The inversion of the sixth is the third, and this interval is used extensively in the four measures preceding Rehearsal 1. The third and the sixth feature prominently in the Enigma Theme, and remarkable feature since the opus number for this work is 36.
((36 ?))



http://enigmathemeunmasked.blogspot...erboard.html
http://www.oldenwilde.org/oldenwild...usciphr.html
http://www2.ouk.edu.tw/yen/grove/En...s/S06915.htm

Octave Scales:

Noocassel
Unfortunately not God save the King (which would have been good), much too fast.
Bournemouth and Poole we well remember (being Poms) and we lived in Melksham in Wiltshire which was not all that far away.
Can remember the large shopping centre opening in Poole, quite a landmark at the time.
I started collecting KEVIII myself thinking it was an area I could complete. Talk about "Ignorance is Bliss"
Our website shows how wrong I could be, one article outlining the start of things and another the collection as it stands today.

-/comp.html

-/keviii/keviii/e8aaint.html


Tim
Eunice also reckons it is 'fingering' as she tried it on the organ and the electronic piano.
We don't have any other covers, the other one we have seen is on a website, but this is the 'music' on that one.



Regarding the handwriting, that one is quite easy compared with many we have ourselves, and checked online for Vectis Road Barton on Sea, and it is still there on the map.


Geoff

Surprisingly we hadn't heard that ditty about Mrs Simpson.

Perf12
We agree that the addressee is Alexander Wainright, but the next line would be the name of the house, (definite scribble there) – but looks as if it could be 'Longarth ', Vectis Road Barton on Sea Hants.