The phrase "a proper note" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a note that is appropriate, suitable, or meets certain standards in a given context.
Example: "Please ensure that you leave a proper note for the next person who will use the equipment."
Alternatives: "an appropriate note" or "a suitable note".
Most of the actors were trying to walk a fine line between bragging about their films and hitting a proper note of humility.
"I couldn't get a proper note," said Dianne Cooperman, 65, of Rockville, Md., an information technology consultant for federal agencies and a self-taught French horn player.
If you must leave without a verbal adieu, then have the temerity to write a proper note giving reasons behind your decision... on something larger than three inches that isn't a neon color.
Pacific time and runs until 5 p.m. Episodes to be aired will include the premiere episode, "They Shoot Managers, Don't They?" in which Madden's character gets married, the second-season premiere about the band performing with an 18-year-old singer who can't hit a proper note and the episode where two of the band mates decide to run away to Madden's character's apartment.
Say you're a reasonably precocious high-school student in New York City and you believe a college admissions committee would take proper note if you were to make a short film in China featuring actors who, because they happen to be Chinese, speak only Chinese.
Stylized letters, from b to i or k, indicated which fret the player was to stop to produce the proper note; the letter a indicated plucking an open string.
Mr. Miki brings the tale to a bloody and satisfyingly tricky conclusion, without losing the proper note of resignation.
The Innsbruck Early Music Festival took proper note of the occasion by mounting a memorable revival of his "L'Olimpiade," an opera seria.
Last week, the first domestic image on an American stamp was unveiled, heralding Mrs. Post's "Etiquette". The stamp -- of a 1920's place-setting with Lafayette Towle silver, a goblet and hand-painted Copeland Spode china -- is elegant and extremely proper (note the archaically correct placement of the salad fork, prongs up, next to the plate).
Did I take proper note of that when I saw it all the time?
Lord Beaverbrook observed in the same year that he lacked "the proper note of sincerity for which the country listens".
