On 02/12/2025 00:57, Dan Eble wrote:
On 2025-11-30 21:01, Shane Brandes wrote:
Can something like this be added to the string-tunings-init.ly?
%% lute tunings
\makeDefaultStringTuning #'lute-5-course-g-tuning \stringTuning <d g a
d' g'>
\makeDefaultStringTuning #'lute-6-course-d-tuning \stringTuning <d, g,
c e a d'>
\makeDefaultStringTuning #'lute-6-course-g-tuning \stringTuning <g, c
f a d' g'>
Are you willing to read the LilyPond Contributor's Guide and submit a
GitLab merge request for review? If not, we could create a ticket and
someone would undertake it within the next fifty years, maybe.
One of the things you would be asked in either case is where this
request is grounded. Are these tunings just your peculiar favorites?
Are they universally recognized among lutenists? Are there other
contrasting conventions?
I don't recognise any of those, although I think mine might simply be
the second one transposed up a tone. I met lute music through playing
classical guitar, and was told to just drop the g-string to f#.
Cheers,
Wol
