shirling & neueweise wrote:
i am compiling a list of corrections that need to be done in these
files to MM, and things to add, does anyone have things to mention?
for years there have been a number of transposition, spelling, staff
type and clef errors.
any instruments that are missing completely, or that are in the
instrument list but don't appear in any of (or in the appropriate)
instrumental groups menu?
I am always annoyed that Cor Anglais isn't in there (I know English Horn
is, but that's not what we call it over here in non-US locales). It
would be nice to have both to save jigging around later.
I also wonder about some of the abbreviations and capitalizations. e.g.
Bagpipes become "B.P.", when it's not a set of two words to begin with.
Surely "Bp" or even "Bagp." would be better.
Why is "sax" abbreviated to "sx." when it contains the same number of
characters?
Why do they abbreviate Bassoon as "Bsn" and Contrabassoon as "C. Bn."?
I would think that "Flugel" would be a better abbreviation of
Flugelhorn. Similarly "Mar" for Marimba and "Glock" for glockenspiel.
There is a "Flexi-Tone" which should probably be "Flexatone".
Are drum kits commonly called "Drum Sets" in the US?
Isn't the more generally abbreviation for cellos "Vc", not "Vlc"? There
seems to be both in there.
Pedant's hat off now.
Matthew
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