I must be a tad slow. However I incorporate your suggestion still no guitar sounds when the chords play (only for the melody notes).
The snippet does compile without error but seems to have zero effect. Thanks Chris I guessed most of the format but the #.... Escaped me. To # or not to # that is the question..... >Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 14:33:22 -0600 >From: "Christopher R. Maden" <cr...@maden.org> >To: lilypond-user@gnu.org >On 02/05/2016 02:31 PM, Peter Gentry wrote: >> I cannot discover a means to have the chords sound as a >guitar in this >> example everything I try ends up as a piano. >> >> Is it possible to assign a midiInstrument to the chordNotes? > > \chords { > \set ChordNames.midiInstrument = #"acoustic guitar (steel)" > \myChordsTransposed > } > >~Chris _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user