Hello Colin Yes the melody notes on the staff play as a "guitar" but the chords sound as the default piano.
>-----Original Message----- >From: Colin Campbell [mailto:c...@shaw.ca] >Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 1:02 AM >To: Peter Gentry; lilypond-user@gnu.org >Subject: Re: More ponderings on Chordmode > >On 16-02-05 01:31 PM, Peter Gentry wrote: >> I cannot discover a means to have the chords sound as a >guitar in this example everything I try ends up as a piano. >> >> Is it possible to assign a midiInstrument to the chordNotes? >> ><snippage occurreth) > > >> \relative c'' >> \new Staff { >> \set Staff.midiInstrument = "acoustic guitar (nylon)" >> \transpose c b { >> > > >As a bit of a SWAG, does your soundfont actually have a >definition for "acoustic guitar (nylon) "? If not, it will >default to some sort of piano sound. Also, having been bitted >by this myself, is the soundfont loaded in your MIDI device >actually the one you think it is? > >Just my CAD .02, Peter! > >Cheers, >Colin > >-- >The firmest fayth is found in fewest woordes. > -Edward Dyer, courtier and poet (c. 1540-1607) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
