1) The instruments.xml file contains entries for: A) bass guitar, B) acoustic
bass, C) electric bass. Are they 3 different instruments or A) is just a
generic name for both B) and C)?
The three plucked bass entries are there for compatibilty with the MusicXML
3 sound list. In practical terms A an
Where have you got this "init" tag from??
It's not present in the latest version of instruments xml.
The "description" tag is actually there for the purpose of defining the
instrument.
There is also a "TrackName" tag which is for defining the name in the mixer.
HTH
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Regards
Michael
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I suspect the multitude of guitars have been added to cater for mariachi
bands which, according to Wikipedia use several sizes of guitars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar#Acoustic_guitars
The alto guitar is in very common use as a young children's instrument, but
in my experience is tuned a m
2014-06-03 5:02 GMT+03:00 Marc Sabatella :
> On 06/02/2014 05:46 PM, Andrei Tuicu wrote:
> >
> > I agree with Marc, fretless basses should have in my opinion tabs, but
> > for me it makes sense to have tabs for acoustic basses, contrabasses,
> > even violins. For me, if I can "draw" frets on an in
Thanks to everybody for the comments, the suggestions and the knowledge. I
think a short description of how I see the general matter might be useful,
being the original implementor of the tab / string / tuning support.
Specific answers will follow.
1) Data about strings is currently only used in t
About the <:init> tag, see for instance:
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/master/share/templates/instruments.xml#L7934
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AndreiTuicu wrote
> The number of strings that are set in the staff properties should match
> the number of lines from the tab.
No, it should not. There is plenty of instruments for which the number of
strings is different from the number of tab lines, for instance most of the
lute models (and mos
Thanks to David for unearthing the original source of these data
(palaeo-organology?).
ChurchOrganist wrote
> I suspect the multitude of guitars have been added to cater for mariachi
> bands which, according to Wikipedia use several sizes of guitars.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar#Acous
On 06/03/2014 04:19 AM, Andrei Tuicu wrote:
> Moreover, there are a lot of guitarists (more then half of the
> guitarists/electric bass players I know) that never learned standard
> notation, so they will not be able to write scores for other
> instruments if at some point they need to.
Point
@Marc
> > Moreover, there are a lot of guitarists (more then half of the
> > guitarists/electric bass players I know) that never learned standard
> > notation, so they will not be able to write scores for other
> > instruments if at some point they need to.
>
> Point taken, but still, if tab is t
AndreiTuicu wrote
> For instruments without strings, they write tabs for standard guitar ( 6
> strings - standard tunning EADGBE ) which is translated into standard
> notation.
This would seem very odd to me: the standard 6-string guitar setup would
give a totally unrealistic range for most of the
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