Re: Assistance to Create a Recipe for 41-EDO and "Kite Guitar" Tablature

[Stefan Thomas]

Dear Devin,

did You succeed with your research? I would be interested in a file with definitions for notenames and accidental glyphs.

Thanks,

Stefan

Am Do., 29. Juli 2021 um 13:24 Uhr schrieb <devin@ulibarri.website>:

Thank you; I will do some research.

On 2021-07-28 13:49, Stefan Thomas wrote:
> Dear Devin,
> there's also the "society for ekmelic music"  in Salzburg, Austria.
> They also support mictronal notation with lilypond.
> Have a look at
> http://www.ekmelic-music.org/en/extra/ekmelily.htm#Download
> Maybee this helps You!
> Best,
> Stefan
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I need help from users who have some experience with microtonality
>> (or overrides in general) in Lilypond to create a recipe for
>> lilypond notation for the Kite Guitar (kiteguitar.com [1]). The Kite
>> Guitar uses 41 equal divisions of the octave in a clever way, which
>> balances practicality with playability to get a very close
>> approximation to 7-limit Just Intonation. I have made some attempts,
>> but I don't really know Lilypond so well that I can create a handy
>> recipe such as this. I did some research and found
>> http://x31eq.com/lilypond/ which is helpful, but I am unable to make
>> the necessary tweaks with my limited knowledge. (I am happy to send
>> over what I tried to do, but as my attempts have only failed I do
>> not want to confuse anyone.)
>>
>> The overarching specs are:
>> 1. 41 Equal Divisions of the Octave
>>
>> Tablature-specific:
>> 2. Frets are spaced two EDO-steps apart (i.e. 2 of the 41)
>> 3. Strings are tuned 13 EDO-steps apart (i.e. 13 of the 41)
>>
>> ^^Lilypond will either need to find the pitch, or allow the user to
>> override the current calculation as what I am getting is for a
>> standard guitar.
>>
>> Notation-specific:
>>
>> 4. There are Sharps and Flats, but there are also upwards "^",
>> double-upwards "^^", downwards "v", and "double-downwards "vv". (see
>> https://en.xen.wiki/w/Ups_and_Downs_Notation ) 5. There needs to be
>> some way to set upwards/downwards in the key signature. ^^ it would
>> be super-nice if this could be done globally, so that a composer can
>> focus on the music-making
>>
>> Chord-charts:
>>
>> 6. Support for chord charts such as
>>
> https://en.xen.wiki/w/Kite_Guitar_Translations_by_Aaron_Wolf#Auld_Lang_Syne
>> Any help is appreciated. The growing community of Kite Guitar
>> players would really appreciate this (many of whom are fellow
>> software libre supporters/advocates). Also, I can send over some
>> sample scores created with MuseScore once I receive permission to
>> share them.
>>
>> Thanks in Advance!
>> Devin
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://kiteguitar.com