HP & Hp are scale specific rather than instrument specific. You can play a pipe tune on a fiddle provided you know what the pipe mode is. >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [abcusers] Re: To tell the dancer from the dance >Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 11:53:57 +0100 > >Bryan Creer wrote: > > >"Strike the concertina's melancholy string! > >Blow the spirit-stirring harp like anything!" > > > >W.S.Gilbert > > > >Laurie Griffiths said - > > > >>An instruction to play a note on fret 9 of the G string instead of the >open > >>E string is musically relevant. > > > >My concertina doesn't have E or G strings and I'm not playing top E on >the G > >string of my fiddle for anyone. > > > >>A difference between two pieces of notation is musically relevant if and > >>only if it means they should sound different. > > > >This and the example imply that the instrument being played is relevant. > >Wouldn't it be best to exclude instrument specific notation from abc? It > >could get very messy if you don't. > >That's a purist approach. While it would be nice to have a notation system >uncluttered by instrument specific notation it would rule out a lot of >useful stuff which is already in abc, e.g. the HP and Hp key signatures, >u and v in fiddle music, and even [chords], since they are only relevant >to polyphonic instruments. > >The difficulty is to know where to draw the line. Instrument-specific >markings >should not make it difficult to read or parse the abc. If Laurie wants to >write >something like "^F9S3"e in his music to indicate that the note is to be >played >at a particular point on the fingerboard I don't see why he shouldn't. The >result _does_ sound different, and is relevant to a guitarist playing from >the music, and although I doubt if anybody will ever write a player program >capable of dealing with such subtleties, I can see that such hints could be >useful to a program which generated tablature from abc. > >Having said that, it's clear that if he wanted to mark every note with >fret/string markings, he ought to be using tablature in the first place, >rather than abc. > >Phil Taylor > > >To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: >http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
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