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I believe Peter Feldman's essay, "The Big Bang of Bluegrass" goes a long way toward answering the OP's question. Other excellent papers on the subject are Mayne Smith's "An Introduction to...

Thanks for the lead. I enjoy learning and working with audio software so I'll be downloading this and trying it out. My first and continuing reaction is that it's more fun and probably more...

Those are not double flats, they're "courtesy flats" to make it a bit easier for the performer to read.