Re: Describing instruments

[Valentin Villenave]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> 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 can produce high notes that are
out-of-range but still okay, and what about pedal notes wrt horns and
trombones?).  That being said, it could be a nice enhancement for
newcomers who are used to having such "features" in proprietary
software.
Even though I personally find such features infantilizing for the
user, I consider this to be a valid feature request in case someone
has time, skills and courage to implement it. Added as
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=914

Cheers,
Valentin