Re: another question regarding ottava: why does Lilypond change the pitches?

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 02/11/2021 à 00:08, Kenneth Wolcott a écrit :
> That helps explain it! Thanks!
>
> But if I wanted to reproduce precisely what this arranger is doing, I
> could just enter the pitches as written and just place a note to
> instruct the performer to do the ottava manually, correct?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken

Sure. And if you would prefer to enter
the pitches as souding, you could keep
\ottava and add

  \omit Staff.OttavaBracket

Best,
Jean