Re: Percussion in Lilypond

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/10/8 Jonathan Kulp <address@hidden>:
> Just a note to say "thanks" to whoever implemented \drummode and wrote the
> docs for percussion.  I finally got around to checking this out today and I
> should have done it ages ago.  In my orchestral piece I'd been using normal
> mode in the percussion parts and having to do all sorts of overrides to get
> what I wanted when I could have used drummode and simplified everything.
>  Better late than never I guess :)

My guess is that drum notation was implemented by Han-Wen and Jan like
most of LilyPond, but I believe this particular area was also
something Rune Zedeler worked on, in 2002 or so. Rune is now deceased,
but I thought someone had to mention him here...

Cheers,
Valentin