On 19 April 2012 03:08, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote: > Playing in the pit for Pirates of Penzance last night, the bass player > pointed out an articulation mark in the string bass part that neither of us > had seen before. It was basically the Greek character "phi" -- a circle > with a vertical line all the way through it. It occurred several times. > > This is a hand-drawn score. I'm thinking that they probably meant snap > pizzicato, and it was easier to draw the line all the way through than to > stop part way through. Snap pizzicato would fit in the context, and I have > found no source that shows the exact "phi" symbol. Have any of you string > players seen that notation? > > -- > Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
Snap pizzicato and the very Victorian Arthur Sullivan don’t really gel together in my mind. I wish I could offer an alternative theory. Vaughan _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
