[email protected] writes: > On 2015-10-31 12:49, pls wrote: >> [email protected] writes: >> >>> On 2015-10-31 11:39, pls wrote: >>>> Thomas Morley <[email protected]> writes: >>>>> Personally, I don't like any of those and lean towards excluding >>>>> quarter-tones from FretBoards at all and let output the warning >>>>> about >>>>> "Missing fret for pitch ~a on string ~a" as before. >>>>> Letting only TabStaff display quarter-tones. >>>> >>>> I'm of the same opinion as it doesn't/shouldn't really matter >>>> pitchwise where exactly you >>>> place your finger within a fret space on a fretted instrument. >>> >>> I'm no guitarist, but don't they sometimes pull sideways on the string >>> or use a mechanical attachment to sharpen a note? >> >> Yes, pull-offs are quite common but it's rather a technique to pluck >> the >> string with your fretting hand. With "mechanical attachment" you're >> probably alluding to a capo. It acts like a sort of artificial >> "barre". It fits around the neck of the guitar and raises the pitch of >> all (or only some of the) strings. LilyPond already displays capo >> indications as a thick bar >> in fret diagrams. Bottlenecks are also used to sharpen or lower a >> note. It works like some sort of a "movable fret". >> But I've never seen quarter tone indications in fret diagrams. >> >> Cheers, >> Patrick > > I was thinking of things like these: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrato_systems_for_guitar
Yes, electric guitars can be equipped with a whammy bar. Those effects usually have their own symbols in traditional notation and tablature but not in fret diagrams (see attachment).
> >> BTW: Did you deliberately not reply to the list? > > No. I'm stuck using an unfamiliar web-mail interface while my main > computer is being repaired; I must have hit the wrong button. Thanks > for noticing. You're welcome! Patrick
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