Re: Describing instruments

[Mats Bengtsson]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:06:32PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>   
> > If you transpose music, Lilypond could warn if notes become unplayable
> > on a baroque soprano recorder.  Because the range is left, or because a
> > particular semitone is not on the instrument.  Similar for other
> > instruments.
> >     
> ...
>   
> > It would also be helpful for arrangers and composers to have a databank
> > of instruments available, so that they don't go to the orchestra with
> > their finished scores and get told "Dude, that's not playable on a
> > standard bassoon."
> >     
>
> 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.  But if you want to persue this, feel free to write a music
> function which checks the ranges (or anything else) and add it to
> LSR.
>   
LilyPond offers partial help, for the composer who has access to 
information on the range of the instruments but wants to quickly check 
if the parts he already has written are within that range, thanks to the 
support for ambitus, 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-pitches#Ambitus. 
This should also be useful as a starting point if you want to implement 
more automated range checks.

  /Mats
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
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