Names of instruments in Italian would be nice to save having to go through the staff tool to put them in 1-by-1.
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hindson fastmail acct" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
