On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Patrick Schmidt <p.l.schm...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Graham,
>
> I moved the tab clef to fretted-strings and the percussion clef to percussion
> for the following reasons:
>
> 1) (in a strict sense) they don't display pitches (1.1.3 Displaying pitches)
That's a nice argument, but it doesn't seem to be true:
\relative c' {
\clef percussion
c2 d e f
\clef tab
c2 d e f
}
I can see different pitches. I'll grant that the TAB is fairly
useless like this... I suppose a contemporary composer might want to
use it and put some different text there, but they might as well use
an alto clef and override the clef glyph.
> 3) They are special purpose clefs. They don't make sense (to me) in a normal
> staff.
A composer might want to indicate that a violinist should play wood
blocks during a symphony? Some pieces have the strings doubling
percussive instruments like that.
> 4) the examples in the clef section were a bit confusing as pitch 'c' is
> displayed on the middle line of the staff when these two clefs are used.
Isn't that exactly what's supposed to happen? At least for
percussion; I don't know about tab.
I've moved percussion back into Clef. I don't mind keeping TAB separate.
Cheers,
- Graham
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