diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 194c0a4..cd6da96 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-2022 April 06 2022
+2022 April 27 2022
 
diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES
index 9c40a7b..4b9aa09 100644
--- a/doc/CHANGES
+++ b/doc/CHANGES
@@ -14701,6 +14701,33 @@ The problem was identified to me by Jakob Englhauser. Jakob verified
 that this fix works.
 
 
-April 06 midi2abc: removal of spaces in text strings for control
+April 06 2022 midi2abc: removal of spaces in text strings for control
 messages.
 
+
+April 27 2022 abc2midi: Recanting change from February 18 2022.
+The swap was incorrect.
+Fix: swapped p2 and p1 in
+          *transpose = p2 - p1;
+in parsesound() in parseabc.c
+abc2midi now transposes this file correctly.
+
+
+X:1
+T: transposition
+M: 4/4
+L: 1/4
+K:Cm
+V:1 shift=cF
+cdef|gabc'|
+V:2 sound=cF
+cdef|gabc'|
+V:3 score=cF
+cdef|gabc'|
+V:4 instrument=cF
+cdef|gabc'|
+
+Note that the command instrument=cF is not part of the abc standard
+and abc2svg does not recognize it.
+
+
diff --git a/doc/readme.txt b/doc/readme.txt
index 325d9be..9410c2e 100644
--- a/doc/readme.txt
+++ b/doc/readme.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 abcMIDI :   abc <-> MIDI conversion utilities
 
 midi2abc version 3.53 April 06 2022
-abc2midi version 4.70 March 20 2022
+abc2midi version 4.72 April 27 2022
 abc2abc  version 2.16 February 22 2022
 yaps     version 1.88 February 22 2022
 abcmatch version 1.80 November 25 2021
diff --git a/parseabc.c b/parseabc.c
index 5ec98aa..6424db8 100644
--- a/parseabc.c
+++ b/parseabc.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ parsesound (s, word, gottranspose, transpose)
           *transpose = 0;
           } else {
           /* printf("midi note = %d\n",p2); */
-          *transpose = p1 - p2; /* [SS] 2022.02.18 */
+          *transpose = p2 - p1; /* [SS] 2022.02.18 2022.04.27 */
           /* printf("transpose = %d\n",*transpose); */
           *gottranspose = 1;
           }
diff --git a/store.c b/store.c
index 48f197c..af86f7c 100644
--- a/store.c
+++ b/store.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ int main()
 
 */
 
-#define VERSION "4.71 March 20 2022 abc2midi" 
+#define VERSION "4.72 April 27 2022 abc2midi" 
 
 /* enables reading V: indication in header */
 #define XTEN1 1