On 06/02/2014 03:08 PM, Maurizio M. Gavioli wrote: > <Instrument id="acoustic-bass"> > <init>contrabass</init>
I'm not clear on the function of the "init" tag, but assuming it means something like, "inherits some info from" or "shares some info with", that's fine. > [Side note: The entry for contrabass is also not entirely clear: > 1) it is duplicated into a "contrabass" and a "double-bass" entry, with the > same data except for the names; probably an <init> would be useful > here too. Same comment. > 2) Pitch ranges for both oscillate between a low E tuning and a (5-string?) > low B tuning.] I'm going to make up up some numbers off the top of my head, but I think the scale is probably about right. Among electric basses, 5-string models - going down to low C or B - are "relatively" common. Maybe as many as 5% of all electric basses sold today? Among acoustic basses (the term here includes "contrabass" / "double bass"), it's almost certainly less than 1% of all basses sold today that have five strings - and it's much less common to buy a new bass anyhow. Again, just making up numbers, but I'd say 80% of all acoustic basses played today are at least 30 years old; a good chunk of them are over 100. And five string basses were probably even less common then. However, it isn't *all* that unusual for owners of four-string acoustic basses to get an add-on attachment that allows the low E string to be tuned down to C or B. So in *some* sense, making low B the bottom of the range *could* make sense. But I think that's wrong. The vast majority of bassists cannot play lower than E. MuseScore should label that the bottom of the range for all basses (unless we provide presets for 5-string electrics) and if someone wants to override it, they can. Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Mscore-developer mailing list Mscore-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer
