I have made a specialist notation for notating the Hungarian bagpipe and
am hoping to figure out a way to emulate this notation in Lilypond.
Since I'm relatively new to Lilypond, I may have missed something
obvious, but I have searched the documentation to try to figure it out
and not found anything obvious. Some of the percussion type staffs come
close to my needs, but aren't quite there (and aren't notated
appropriately).
I've made an example of the staff I need here:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/223919/specialStaves.png
The lower part (labeled kontra) is a staff for a chanter pipe (one of
two in this case) that has only two pitches. While I've made a special
cleff (the AE bit), I could live without it (I would prefer it though
since it makes the notation simpler to follow).
The upper part is a standard staff with treble clef and needs no special
attention. So my goal is to place this two-line staff (with extra
spacing between the two lines) below the main staff and assign a voice
to it. Since there are only two possible pitches, I need to assign the
pitches of A and E (both the ones above middle C) to those lines. Their
behavior would be like a regular staff aside from the strange spacing
and clef.
Again, I've tried to figure out how to assign custom staff types and
clefs, etc., but I think my request is unusual enough that I've just not
found anything directly relevant.
(And yes, I could use a two-staff system or two voices in one staff, but
this notation has the advantage of being clearer for the purposes of
illustrating what I need to.)
Any help, pointers in the right direction, etc. would be much
appreciated (even of the "you missed the obvious in section x.x.xx of
the documentation" sort of thing).
Best regards,
Arle Lommel
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