On 12/21/10 7:26 PM, "Marc Mouries" <m...@mouries.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote:
>>
>> Well, it's supposed to be the number of semitones above middle C for each
>> open string, starting with the highest string.
>>
>
> Wow, that's really not self-explanatory but i get why it's needed. However
> I'll have one less argument when my friend tell me that Lilypond is too
> complicated.
> Why not allow people to define tuning with notes, like:
>
> violinTuning = #'(e' a d g)
> guitarTuning= #'(e b g d a e,,)
Well, the short (and dumb) answer is because the notes e' a d g etc. are
lilypond input music expressions, and the string tuning needs to be a Scheme
list.
The next longer answer is probably "because nobody ever thought of it".
>
> and then have an internal function would compute the distance to from and to
> the middle C?
>
The final answer is that it will be quite easy to to create a music function
that creates a string tuning object. How would this syntax be?
\makeStringTuning #'violinTuning {e' a d g}
If this sounds good, I'll have it done in the next day or so.
Thanks for the idea!
Carl
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