Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@googlemail.com> writes: > Hi Eric, > > sorry to come back to you that late. > > 2012/12/13 Eric Pancer <epan...@gmail.com>: >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Thomas Morley >> <thomasmorle...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> 2012/12/12 Eric Pancer <epan...@gmail.com>: >>>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Eric Pancer <epan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> [..] >>>> I've got this working using the following definition: >>>> >>>> #(define mydrums '( >>>> (bassdrum default #f -3) >>>> (snare default #f 0) >>>> (hihat default #f 1) >>>> (lowtom default #f 3))) >>>> >>>> Of course I don't exactly understand what the #f is, but do get the >>>> numerical values are positions in the staff. A bit of explanation >>>> could help me. >>> >>> Every entry in your new list consists of the name, note-head, >>> use-which-script-sign? and staff-position. >> >> Thank you. Where is that documented? > > AFAIK, nowhere. I deduced it from the code
Ugh. Maybe we should do something about that if this is supposed to be user-extensible. >> Is C6 considered "0"? > > Well, here I'm the one who is confused. I never heard "C6" and the > others you mention below. A privilege of being German: we are used to Helmholtz notation. I just looked through the LilyPond documentation and was surprised that we actually have _no_ mention of scientific pitch notation <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation> which is used pretty much exclusively in the U.S.A., consequently in "international" English music texts, and likely elsewhere. If you have any Midi equipment displaying pitches in human-readable manner, it is unlikely that it will use anything but scientific pitch notation for specifying the octave. So it would likely be a good idea to document those relations somewhere. As a rule of thumb, middle c (c' in LilyPond) is C4, and the dreaded Queen of the Night coloratura soprano aria "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" reaches up to F6. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
