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Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem
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Joseph Rushton Wakeling |
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Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem |
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Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:22:43 +0100 |
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On 01/29/2013 10:29 PM, address@hidden wrote:
Just a note to say thank you to all those who want to make this code better.
It's tough for me to take it any farther with my non-expert knowledge of
woodwind instruments, but I would be glad to answer any and on questions
addressed to lilypond-devel regarding Scheme and the innards of this code.
Mike,
First of all, thank _you_ for implementing this in the first place -- it's been
very useful in a recent project.
Second, I think that we can provide a fair amount of woodwind knowledge if you
want it. How would it be most convenient to provide this feedback? As email to
-devel? As bug reports/feature requests?
I think I can summarize my main desired improvements quite simply:
-- more realistic key shapes and placement for the diagrams (this is a
minor quibble, but nice if it can be done);
-- an option to display unused as well as used keys (Wim's request);
-- an option to place the diagram upside down, so looking at it you see
what you see as a player looking down the instrument. I've seen this
used in one or two different fingering references and it has some
merit, even though I most likely wouldn't use it myself.
-- some changes to the key-name version of the clarinet diagrams:
* use R for register key, rather than keeping the register key shape
* use names rather than numbers for the four side keys: from lowest to
highest, Eb, F#, Bb-tr, B-natural-tr (tr stands for trill; I'd include
the natural sign so as to avoid ambiguity).
* ... possibly some work on key-name placement, but that needs a bit
more investigation on my part.
Besides this, I think it's worth giving some careful thought to how best to
support members of the clarinet family with extended range (i.e. low Eb, D, Db,
C; there are a few instruments that also have a low B).
There may be more, but I think that's it. If you like, I could see about making
a scan of a page or two from Philip Rehfeldt's "New Directions for Clarinet"
which indicates appropriate key names and has examples using a key-name based
fingering system.
Best wishes,
-- Joe
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, (continued)
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, Wim van Dommelen, 2013/01/28
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/01/28
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, Wim van Dommelen, 2013/01/28
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/01/29
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, Wim van Dommelen, 2013/01/29
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/01/29
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, Wim van Dommelen, 2013/01/29
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/01/29
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, address@hidden, 2013/01/29
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, Wim van Dommelen, 2013/01/29
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem,
Joseph Rushton Wakeling <=
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, Wim van Dommelen, 2013/01/30
- Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/01/31