Dear Dmitri,
As a Chinese blind musician, I know that there were many variants in
Chinese braille at the very early 20th century, and music braille was
imported at that time. After the build of PRC, the government
organized a lot of experts, blind and sighted, to make literary, math
and music braille unified. Now in China, there are mainly 4 types of
literary braille: common Chinese braille which is used most widely,
2-cell spelled braille which indicates the tones clearly but not
widely used now, Cantonese braille which is used by people speaking
Cantonese, and at last a toning braille system used in Taiwan. Now
people in Beijing are trying to improving the common type of braille
to make toning more clear, called Unified Chinese Braille, but it has
not published yet. For music braille, our rules are based on the 1954
Paris conference, and at that time we invented some special signs for
vocal and Chinese instrumental music. In 2014-15, I translated the New
International Manual Of Braille Music Notation into Chinese, and China
Braille Publishing House published it last year. Now our braille music
rule is going to follow the new version.
Regards
Haipeng
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