> Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:05:18 +0100 > From: David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Instrument line in header block - first piece only? > Message-ID: <874nv0nj2p....@fencepost.gnu.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Brent Annable <brentanna...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Actually, now that I think about it, the default 'instrument' line > > behaviour in the header seems a little odd to me. Does the instrument > > really need to be so demonstratively announced between movements or > > pieces if they are all part of the same document? > > It is common for wind instrument players to have to switch instruments > between parts. > > -- > David Kastrup
It might be somewhat common for wind musicians to switch instruments during the course of a multi-movement work, or even during a movement, but it is not common to notate which instrument to play (apart from the top of the page) UNTIL one has to change. I'm a horn player, so I'm not switching physical instruments except by my own choice (and I don't), but we frequently have different transpositions (which correspond to switching horns or crooks back in the old days) within a work, and I can assure you that the normal practice is to *assume* horn in F, until told otherwise. Clarinet players switch actual instruments more than anyone I'd say, and I don't play clarinet, so I can't speak to that, but I have a feeling that they likewise assume B-flat until they are told something else. Tim Reeves _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user