On Sep 29, 2011, at 9:53 AM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > 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 >
Follow-up - is there a standard notation for the air button and, if so, can LilyPond do it? Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
