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
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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2014-06-03 5:02 GMT+03:00 Marc Sabatella m...@outsideshore.com:
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
About the lt:initgt; 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 most
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.
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 the only
