diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index d823a13bc..b901d91df 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ disable=
     too-many-lines,  # yes, someday
     too-many-return-statements,  # we'll see
     too-many-instance-attributes,  # maybe later
+    too-many-positional-arguments,  # try to get down to 6 first...
     # no-self-use,  # moved to optional extension.
     invalid-name,  # these are good music21 names; fix the regexp instead...
     too-few-public-methods,  # never remove or set to 1
diff --git a/music21/test/testLint.py b/music21/test/testLint.py
index 245aec948..9f55a060e 100644
--- a/music21/test/testLint.py
+++ b/music21/test/testLint.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 # this requires pylint to be installed and available from the command line
+# Anything changed here also needs to be changed at .pylintrc
+
 import argparse
 import os