Darcy:
In GPO Full, these keyswitches are always in the octave immediately below the lowest playable note on the instrument, so that they can be triggered in real time. For instance, the lowest note on the GPO Full KS flute is B3. The keyswitch to trigger ordinary playing is a major seventh below that (i.e., C3). D3 triggers non vib playing. E3 triggers fluttertongue playing.
So what happens if I've got a part that goes down to Bb (as some do)? What if I have one of those 1830s scores that take the fl. down to G? I sense some big problems here, if not for flute, than for some other instruments, because for every one of them there is, below the lowest normal note, a whole bunch of abnormal low notes that composers, in their perversity, do in fact write from time to time.
Case in point: finger the bottom D of the piccolo while covering the far end of the instrument w. your R 5th finger. The result is the D an octave lower. This effect has been written in actual music. What does GPO do in this case?
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
