WITCHER FIC IDEA TIME
i saw a tiktok post by @/violadagoomba who does gregorian chant talking about the guidonian hand, which was a visual way music instructors taught music theory by indicating places on their hand which correlated to different notes and was first depicted/used to teach hexachord in the 12th century or so. which meeeeeans~~~ guess who TOTALLY not only learned with but also taught using the guidonian hand??
THATS RIGHT!!
MASTER OF THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS VICOUNT JULIAN ALFRED PANKRATZ, MORE WIDELY KNOWN AS
THE BARD JASKIER.
so what i immediately need is references to this in fic!!!! geralt watches jaskier teach a class and wonders why he's gesturing to his hand. jaskier communicates specific notes to another bard across a loud room by pointing them out. teaching geralt the placement and sound of the notes. jaskier doing the musical equivalent of finger counting or going through the hand as a grounding mech or practicing it when bored, singing each note as he ticks them off on his hand.
USING THE GUIDONIAN HAND AS A SILENT/SECRET CODE LANGUAGE WITH GERALT OR OTHER BARDS???
there's SO MUCH use one could get out of this and it would be SO COOL.
anyway time to go write another fanfic wip exclusively to add this into it
