On 11/1/21, 4:49 PM, "Kenneth Wolcott" <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Kieren & Carl;
Well, since you have already provided an MWE that shows it works as
documented, may I provide my full Lilypond code? It is only a halfway
completed Piano arrangement of "The Elephant" from the ""Carnival of
the Animals", by Saint-Saens. It is not long and it is simple.
Perhaps I'm doing something really stupid...
In the original piece, when it says "L.R. sempre 8va bassa" I believe it means
all of the pitches need to be shifted down by an octave. But when you entered
the pitches, you didn't lower them by an octave to the sounding pitch, you
entered them at the staff position pitch. Thus, when you lowered the staff by
an octave with \ottava, the pitches shifted up by an octave on the staff.
TLDR; Your pitches are an octave too high.
Carl
