Re: Automatic annotation of slide positions/fingerings for brass instruments.

[Wol]

On 28/08/2023 13:42, samarutuk wrote:
> The final hurdle with your code now is that it doesn't really take pitch 
> into account. C3 (c) has a different default slide position on the 
> trombone than C4 (c'). So no matter if you notate notes absolute or 
> relative in Lilypond, you would always have to use the absolute pitch 
> (also for transposing instruments) as basis, so that the assigned slide 
> positions or fingerings are correct.

Yup. Just remember that defaults aren't always right ... 1+3 doesn't 
always equal 4 ...

I was looking at doing something like this, but I don't seem to "get" 
scheme programming to be able to do it. And as a trombonist, I often 
don't use default positions - given that a lot of brass music is fast 
chromatics, scales or arpeggios, the most appropriate position often 
depends on the neighbouring notes.

And I remember my trumpet/cornet friends - usually when squeaking up 
high - actively avoiding default positions because they're dreadfully 
out-of-tune ...

Doing this well is a lot harder than it looks.

Cheers,
Wol