Re: : Re: transpose range

[David Kastrup]

"Peter Gentry" <address@hidden> writes:

> From: David Kastrup [mailto:address@hidden 
>
> "Peter Gentry" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> The numeric pitch (op) is calculated by (define op (+ (* 14 o) (* n
>> 2) (/ a 2))) “op is a unique number representing the pitch of the
>> note”
>
>> Uh, that's pretty bad since it sees eis as equal to fes.  Anything
>> wrong with just using (ly:pitch-tones p) instead?
>
> a. I had not heard of ly:pitch-tones p)
> b. for most folks eis is the same sound as fes. Neither my battered old ears 
> or my tuner could  detect the difference.  😊

Well, I am glad that you don't sing in my hearing range then and you
should throw away that tuner.

A semitone difference is quite noticeable.

address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ lilypond scheme-sandbox
GNU LilyPond 2.19.59
Processing `/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.19.59/ly/scheme-sandbox.ly'
Parsing...
guile> (apply - (map ly:pitch-tones (list #{ eis #} #{ fes #})))
1/2
guile> 


-- 
David Kastrup