Re: review of a Mutopia file (why TabStaff gives error here?)

[Keith OHara]

Federico Bruni <fedelogy <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Il 24/11/2012 03:34, Keith OHara ha scritto:
> > Federico Bruni <fedelogy <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> I've updated to 2.16 the following piece of Mutopia:
> >> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=636
> >> Can anyone review it?

> I've also added the right harmonic (fifth fret of third string) in the 
> last bar:
> \harmonicByFret #5 g,4.\3\fermata^"Octav."
> 

I could not figure out what the version currently at mutopiaproject was
trying to show.  (Guitar harmonic notation confuses me; in bowed strings
we use the diamond head to show where the string is touched, and/or a 
normal head at sounding pitch.)

What you wrote seems a quite reasonable interpretation of the original, 
but the "Octav." indication is not needed (and probably was wrong in the
original).  Touching the open G at the fifth fret divides it into fourths,
producing a tone two octaves above the open-string G.  The \harmonicByFret 
creates a diamond-head (apparently following the convention for guitar) at
sounding pitch so no need for an extra "Octav."

> But if you comment TabStaff the score breaks: a lot of tab staves 
> are printed, I see that it's because of the \set TabStaff in the barre 
> command above.
> 
I was going to suggest \tag #'tab \set ..., but David's suggestion seems
much better
  \set Staff.minimumFret = $strg
  \unset Staff.minimumFret