> My pit players sometimes have to play, in the same piece, five or
> more instruments of different transposition (e.g., flute, Alto Sax,
> Tenor Sax, Bb clarinet, Eb clarinet) — breaking every piece down
> into multiple chunks is not only inefficient, time-consuming, and
> error-prone from a coding perspective, it also discourages quick
> re-arrangement (which I often have to do in the middle of a workshop
> or rehearsal period).
What about defining functions that emit the instrument name and do the
transposition? You would have a set of definitions for the
parts (with transposition), and another set of definitions for the
score (without transposition).
Werner
