On Sep 29, 2011, at 9:31 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Mike Solomon <mike...@ufl.edu> writes: > >> Hey all, >> >> If I want an accordion player to use stops to play a passage one >> octave under the written pitch, I was wondering what the appropriate >> notation was? I found the info about discant notation in the manual, >> but I'm not sure if those correspond to a change in octave (i.e. by >> using the bassoon, is the pitch automatically played an octave >> under?). > > Yes. The lowest-sounding reed in the register determines the basic > pitch of the sound, any additional reeds change the timbre. > > The low reed has the same pitch as the middle reed played one octave > lower, but is usually more mellow in sound quality when played alone > (Italian register switches tend to call them "bassoon" and "clarinet", > respectively). So you have to be prepared for a switch in sound quality > as well as of octave when composing. >
Good deal - thanks! ~Mike _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
