Hi, currently the only connection between instrument and lilypond are instrument names (pure typesetting) and a midi instrument (just sonorization).
I think it would be useful if instruments could become more than that: for example, if a given instrument (or one manual of such an instrument) has a certain available range, it is not really sensible if the chord typesetters leave that range. The predefined guitar chord symbols, for example, can map chord names to the usual guitar ranges. But what if you have a classically trained player playing from normal notes? The chord symbols are not mapped back into notes. If you transpose music, Lilypond could warn if notes become unplayable on a baroque soprano recorder. Because the range is left, or because a particular semitone is not on the instrument. Similar for other instruments. Or a player could declare only a subset of guitar chords he is able to play and tell Lilypond to transpose this thing so that he can both play and sing a song. It would also be helpful for arrangers and composers to have a databank of instruments available, so that they don't go to the orchestra with their finished scores and get told "Dude, that's not playable on a standard bassoon." Maybe that would be workable in the context of performers? On the other hand, where mapping a chord to the available range is required, this has to happen quite a bit earlier. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
