Hi Joseph,
On 29 Jan 2013, at 23:22 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
-- more realistic key shapes and placement for the diagrams (this
is a
minor quibble, but nice if it can be done);
-- an option to display unused as well as used keys (Wim's request);
E.g. with a property '(showall . #t)', see discussion below.
-- an option to place the diagram upside down, so looking at it
you see
what you see as a player looking down the instrument. I've
seen this
used in one or two different fingering references and it has some
merit, even though I most likely wouldn't use it myself.
That would probably be a global addition to presenting a (graphical)
diagram, not necessarily placed inside the woodwind code. Searching
for this I found a remark with "upsidedown" in a discussion on fret
properties. If that would be implemented as a wrapper function, it
could do more. A woodwind wrapper function could be called (or
modified) for example like this:
\set woodwindProperties = #'((color . red) (graphical . #f)
(upsidedown . #t) (showall . #f))
The upsidedown would be your request, the '(graphical . #f)' already
exists in another format (currently: '\override #'(graphical . #f)',
page 370/371 of the version 2.16.0 notation manual). Maybe both the
woodwind and fret (and more?) could use a generic wrapper function.
The real syntax I leave to the real programmers. Properties "size" and
"thickness" are already available now, but could be integrated.
Besides this, I think it's worth giving some careful thought to how
best to support members of the clarinet family with extended range
(i.e. low Eb, D, Db, C; there are a few instruments that also have a
low B).
That is why the "low-bass-clarinet" stencil exists. That is (as I
reverse engineer it) intended for bass-clarinet toward low-C (the
concert model) whereas the "bass-clarinet" is the low-Ees (streetmodel).
There may be more, but I think that's it. If you like, I could see
about making a scan of a page or two from Philip Rehfeldt's "New
Directions for Clarinet" which indicates appropriate key names and
has examples using a key-name based fingering system.
Mmmhh, sounds interesting.
Best wishes,
-- Joe
Regards,
Wim.
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