Re: Accidentals: Unwanted naturals

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Dienstag, 25. August 2009 10:09:53 schrieb Simon Mackenzie:
> The g minor chord has two flats Eb & Bb 

Exactly. This means that a note that is displayed on the middle staff line 
without any accidental is actually a B-flat, not a B. In Lilypond you have to 
enter the real pitches, so you have to enter a b-flat. If you enter only "b", 
then lilypond assumes you really want a "b", which means that lilypond needs 
to print a natural, because the key signature says that without it a note on 
the middle staff line means a b-flat.

If you know the piano, you can think of each key on the piano having one name 
(b, b-flat, etc.) and if you want one particular key on the keyboard being 
pressed, you need to use that name.

Don't think of "okay, that note should be displayed on the middle staff line. 
The middle staff line means "b", so I have to enter "b". This is wrong, since 
the middle staff line can mean either b, b-flat or b-sharp, depending on the 
key 
signature.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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Reinhold Kainhofer, address@hidden, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
 * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
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