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

[David Wright]

On Mon 01 Nov 2021 at 17:18:29 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 4:38 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > Sure. And if you would prefer to enter
> > the pitches as souding, you could keep
> > \ottava and add
> >
> >    \omit Staff.OttavaBracket
> 
> Got it.

… which would have the advantage that any MIDI output would play
at the correct pitch too.

Cheers,
David.