Re: a (simple?) question

[Graham Percival]

On 15-Dec-04, at 11:52 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> I saw a "Staff.instrumentMidi" thing somewhere but its syntax is  
> unclear to me.

Sorry.  That was fixed in the unstable docs, but they're still relevant  
to 2.4.
(under docs 6.3)

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/MIDI- 
instrument-names.html

\set Staff.midiInstrument = #"cello"
c4 c d e


You also need a \midi{} block; see the rest of that chapter for details.

Cheers,
- Graham