> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:17:36 +0100
> From: Mats Bengtsson
> Subject: Re: Describing instruments
> To: Graham Percival
> Cc: David Kastrup , lilypond-devel@gnu.org
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> Mats Bengtsson writes:
>
>> Graham Percival wrote:
>
>>> I don't think that lilypond should serve as a crutch to composer who
>>> know so little about their craft that they write unplayable notes.
>>> But if you want to persue this, feel free to write a music function
>>> which checks the range
Mats Bengtsson writes:
> Graham Percival wrote:
>> I don't think that lilypond should serve as a crutch to composer who
>> know so little about their craft that they write unplayable notes.
>> But if you want to persue this, feel free to write a music function
>> which checks the ranges (or anyt
Graham Percival wrote:
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:06:32PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
If you transpose music, Lilypond could warn if notes become unplayable
on a baroque soprano recorder. Because the range is left, or because a
particular semitone is not on the instrument. Similar for oth
Graham Percival writes:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:06:32PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> If you transpose music, Lilypond could warn if notes become unplayable
>> on a baroque soprano recorder. Because the range is left, or because a
>> particular semitone is not on the instrument. Similar f
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:42:04 +0100
> From: Valentin Villenave
> Subject: Re: Describing instruments
> To: Graham Percival
> Cc: David Kastrup , lilypond-devel@gnu.org
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> On Sun,
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Graham Percival
wrote:
> I don't think that lilypond should serve as a crutch to composer
> who know so little about their craft that they write unplayable
> notes.
Besides, things are not so black-and-white for some instruments (e.g.
wind instruments or singers
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:06:32PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> If you transpose music, Lilypond could warn if notes become unplayable
> on a baroque soprano recorder. Because the range is left, or because a
> particular semitone is not on the instrument. Similar for other
> instruments.
...
> I
Hi,
currently the only connection between instrument and lilypond are
instrument names (pure typesetting) and a midi instrument (just
sonorization).
I think it would be useful if instruments could become more than that:
for example, if a given instrument (or one manual of such an instrument)
has
