Re: Shouldn't the ambitus engraver prefer his key signature?

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, David Kastrup 
<address@hidden> writes
> Hi,
>
> the ambitus engraver seemingly picks the first maximum/minimum in the
> note sequence and stays with it even when the same absolute pitch comes
> up later with a better match to the ambitus engraver's key signature.
>
> Here is a real world example where the ambitus engraver (which is
> working in C major) picks c flat rather than b as its lowest span.
> Ugly.

Not that I use ambituses, but surely, where there multiple notes of the 
same pitch (I hate to say "absolute pitch", because to take the above 
example c-flat and b-natural are NOT the same pitch except on the 
piano), it makes sense to take the lowest (or highest, as appropriate) 
note - b over c.

Cheers,
Wol
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