Re: need to lower guitar pitch by a scale octave for midi output

[Graham Percival]

On 12-Jul-04, at 9:26 PM, Patrick Stanistreet wrote:
> I wrote in an earlier note that I am converting my 1.6.10 lily files
> to 2.2.0 and for the most part it is working.  The code that I was
> using to lower the midi pitch of the guitar an octave does not
> seem to be working,
> Here is the convert-ly output
>
>     \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"acoustic guitar (nylon)"
>     \set Staff.instrument = "guitar"
>     \set Staff.transposing = -12

Shouldn't this line be:
        \set Staff.transposing = #-12
?

The .instrument line might also need to have a # .  I'm not certain 
though,
and I haven't tested either of these suggesions.

- Graham