Hi,
that is, of course, correct. With F attachment, you also have to move
further than the default position, the lower you play. For C2/c, you
have to move to the 7 position with F attachment. Adam Griggs also noted
this yesterday in his attached PDF with a handy overview of the default
tenor trombone slides 👍. Oddly enough, this is often not mentioned in
trombone schools. Advanced or professional trombonists shouldn't need
slide positions, I just wanted to use this for beginners 😉
But programming the complex version could certainly be done as well.
Thanks for your input
Andreas
Am 29.08.2023 um 23:59 schrieb Wol:
On 28/08/2023 13:42, samarutuk wrote:
The final hurdle with your code now is that it doesn't really take
pitch into account. C3 (c) has a different default slide position on
the trombone than C4 (c'). So no matter if you notate notes absolute
or relative in Lilypond, you would always have to use the absolute
pitch (also for transposing instruments) as basis, so that the
assigned slide positions or fingerings are correct.
Yup. Just remember that defaults aren't always right ... 1+3 doesn't
always equal 4 ...
I was looking at doing something like this, but I don't seem to "get"
scheme programming to be able to do it. And as a trombonist, I often
don't use default positions - given that a lot of brass music is fast
chromatics, scales or arpeggios, the most appropriate position often
depends on the neighbouring notes.
And I remember my trumpet/cornet friends - usually when squeaking up
high - actively avoiding default positions because they're dreadfully
out-of-tune ...
Doing this well is a lot harder than it looks.
Cheers,
Wol
