On 25/06/15 22:17, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: > > However, as the owner and player of (for example) a contrabassoon with a > key layout that differs from the one provided, I'd like to know: what > capabilities are there for expanding the library of diagrams? What > about, for example, bass flute? Or the Kingma system flute (which has > keys for quartertones)? What about the French bassoon, or the German > clarinet? Oboe d'amore, English Horn, Heckelphone? Brass instruments?
As a brass player, I've thought about adding automatic fingering for them, but it's fairly tricky. Okay, the notation is simple, any combination of "123" in the basic form, but obviously *some* instruments have a fourth valve, the trombone has a slide and sometimes a 4th AND 5TH valve, and quite often despite 13 and 4 being nominally the same, they're in practice noticeably different. So doing fingering for brass would be pretty easy. Getting it to do a good job without a lot of effort, wouldn't. (But that's probably true of most areas :-) Cheers, Wol (Who was thinking of this back in the 2.4 days ...) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
