On 30/04/18 14:50, Hans Åberg wrote: > >> On 29 Apr 2018, at 22:17, Jacques Menu Muzhic <imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> wrote: >> >> OK, now everything is clear, it’s precisely on jazz chords I’m working. > > FYI, I recall the Mehegan books on jazz improvisation applying enharmonic > equivalents freely. The Blatter books on instrumentation suggests applying > them to simplify for harpists, which will save time and money. But orchestral > instruments depart from Pythagorean tuning, not E12, so they are not > equivalent, differing by a comma of about 20 cents. > Which actually matters how?
Apart from the violins and the trombone, most instruments just play the pitch to which they are tuned, so Bbb and A are the same fingering, and the same note. Yes I know most decent wind musicians can "bend" the tuning, but surely they'll bend it by ear into tune, not to some arbitrary note name. Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
