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ASCII tab
Tablature
Musical notation
If that information is incorrect, please contribute your expertise by editing the entries, because they lead me to believe calling ASCII tablatures notation is acceptable.
Even the article refers to them as notation.
...Yes, if you go back and read my fist post, you will find that I, too, refer to tabs as notation, and say: "it’s a customary txt-format notation". And if you go to the wiki article you linked and read the sentence after the one you pasted, you'll find it says :"ASCII tab is intended to be a human-readable format rather than machine-readable, and hence is not strictly defined.".
Wanna see another musical notation method that doesn't actually notate music?
That's a harmonica tab - the number is the hole, the sign is inhale-exhale, but to actually play the song, you need to already know the tune to Bella Ciao.
Its not wrong to call tab notation, its just pretty basic and crude