I'm not sure I understand the question :) But I always ignore sympathetic drones.
d At 04:08 PM 12/23/2009, you wrote: >Staff notation differes from tablature notation in many ways, but a >fundamental point of difference is that ordinary staff notation specifys >only the pitch of each note, and not where on the instrument it is >produced, for instruments with alternatives this leaves it up to the >player, and must be determined in advance, which is a difficulty when >playing by sight. > >Annotations on the score will tell a guitarist what position to play in, >an organist might have separate staves for each manual; a number of >conventions address this issue, but for a computer program it comes down >to what data is recorded internally. > >MusicXML records the fret and the pitch; but not the tuning (its a big >specification, might have missed that). Notation software can review the >recorded note/fret pairs and deduce the open tuning (and therefore the >implied course) so long as two things are true - fretting must be >indicated as if it was chromatic, no two courses can have the same open >pitch. > >I suspect there are some historical cittern tabulatures which break the >first; and the second may be a problem for some scordaturas on appalachian >dulcimer (which also has a diatonic fretting issue). The 5-string banjo >has a myriad of tunings that i have not explored, perhaps its fifth string >is sometimes tuned-down to double the first? > >Q - > >Besides the strummed dulcimer, ignoring octaves and sympathetic drones, >can anyone think of an instrument which (sometimes) employs >duplicated-pitch open courses? >-- >Dana Emery > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
