Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> writes: >>> Can we do away with choosing the tuning, isn't there a common tuning >>> for guitar that > 90% of guitars use? >> >> Can we do away with the command line, isn't there a common desktop >> environment that >90% of computer users use? > > What I meant was: what is required for the a minimal first useful > user experience. Would a hardcoded tuning do, so that we can > implement a tuning choosing mechanism later? > >> Tuning is not necessarily per guitar but rather per piece. > > OK. > >> It is quite common to have pieces in "lute tuning" (one string a >> semitone off, don't remember which one right now) and also to turn the >> lowest string one note down occasionally. > > So I take it that my guess that 90% of all guitar pieces have standard > tuning was too optimistic?
Depends on what you call a "guitar piece". Chord accompaniment (strumming guitar) is almost exclusively eadgbe (Dutch names, not German). But you don't need LilyPond for that. Tablature is probably a bit more than 90% of all pieces. But an evening with classical guitar music will often not be fully covered. Professional Rock/Pop musicians often have a number of guitars on stage just for saving the time to retune for particular pieces (as a retune needs time to settle, this may involve more than the tuning time itself). -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
