Re: Adding a bass note

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 05:46 am, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> > the second chord does not get the "/F". Lilypond gets the notes
> > right, as shown by the Staff context, but the bass F does not
> > appear in the name of the chord.
> >
> > I'm not sure I've got the right syntax for the chords, but all the
> > other ones came out quite as I wanted them; this one doesn't want
> > to....
> >
> > Any Idea?
>
> You found a bug; the base note wasn't added for exceptions.
>
> (btw, is this called "base" or "bass"?)

Bass, since the 18th century.  Burney used "base".  It was ok
a long time ago, not now.  DaveA

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