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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: Expanded fingering diagrams?
From:       Jacques Menu <imj-muzhic () bluewin ! ch>
Date:       2015-06-26 7:45:44
Message-ID: E52A231A-4456-4718-B2CB-5CB9D6F4664A () bluewin ! ch
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Hello Andrew,

Partial good news : in the so-called french system, the oboe d'amore shares the \
regular oboe fingering (it sounds just a minor third below), and the english horn \
just misses the low B flat key compared to the former. As to the contrabassoon \
diagram, it is already part of LP as of 2.19.

The actual bad news is that those diagrams are programmed at a rather low level. You \
can look at define-woodwind-diagram.scm or define-woodwind-diagrams.scm, I don't know \
the role each of them plays.

A nice day!

> Le 25 juin 2015 à 23:48, Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> a écrit :
> 
> On 25/06/15 22:17, N. Andrew Walsh wrote:
> > 
> > However, as the owner and player of (for example) a contrabassoon with a
> > key layout that differs from the one provided, I'd like to know: what
> > capabilities are there for expanding the library of diagrams? What
> > about, for example, bass flute? Or the Kingma system flute (which has
> > keys for quartertones)? What about the French bassoon, or the German
> > clarinet? Oboe d'amore, English Horn, Heckelphone? Brass instruments?
> 
> As a brass player, I've thought about adding automatic fingering for
> them, but it's fairly tricky. Okay, the notation is simple, any
> combination of "123" in the basic form, but obviously *some* instruments
> have a fourth valve, the trombone has a slide and sometimes a 4th AND
> 5TH valve, and quite often despite 13 and 4 being nominally the same,
> they're in practice noticeably different.
> 
> So doing fingering for brass would be pretty easy. Getting it to do a
> good job without a lot of effort, wouldn't. (But that's probably true of
> most areas :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol
> (Who was thinking of this back in the 2.4 days ...)
> 
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