Re: Diatonic Instruments (Mountain Dulcimer)

[Blake Thornton]

Okay, I updated my version of lilypond and it is almost perfect.  Thank 
you!

Here is the main problem I see now.  Lilypond favors the higher strings. 
Thus, lilypond will try to put the melody on the first string (which is 
the top string in the tablature).  But, for dulcimer tablature, the 
strings are generally numbered in reverse order.  Thus, if we keep the 
string labeled 1, 2, 3 then I want string 3 (the melody string) favored 
instead of string 1.  This can be solved by manually telling lilypond 
which string to use, but that is a bit of a pain.

I put my snippet below to illustrate this.  The first two measures are 
what I want (and did by manually entering the string number), the next two 
measures are what is generated automatically by lilypond.

Thanks!
Blake



\version "2.14.2"


notesA = \relative c' {
  g4\1 a\2 d4\3 e\3
  fis\3 g\3 a\3 b\3
}
notesB = \relative c' {
  g4  a d e
  fis g a b
}


<<
  \new Staff {
    \notesA
    \notesB
    }

  \new TabStaff
  \with {
    stringTunings = #`(
      ,(ly:make-pitch -1 1 0)
      ,(ly:make-pitch -1 5 0)
      ,(ly:make-pitch 0 1 0)
    )

    %TabStaff.stringTunings = #'(14 11 7 2 19 )

    fretLabels = #'(
    "0"   "0+"  "1"  "1+" "2"   "3"  "3+"  "4"  "4+"  "5"  "6"  "6+"
    "7"   "7+"  "8"  "8+" "9"  "10" "10+" "11" "11+" "12" "13" "13+"
    "14" "14+" "15" "15+" "16" "17" "17+" "18" "18+" "19" "20" "20+")
    tablatureFormat = #fret-letter-tablature-format
  }
  \new TabVoice {
    \notesA
    \notesB
  }

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