Re: F-flat Key Signature

[Urs Liska]

Am 19.09.2012 18:26, schrieb address@hidden:
> Hi,
> I have to agree with david. I studied music and piano and i never saw a piece
> composed with key-signature f-flat. It would be completly unreadable. Any
> musician would reject to study a piece with a double-flat in the
> key-signature.
> It's amazing that lilypond supports such strange things but from the
> practical point of view its useless.
> Just write e-major and the musicans will be thankfull ;-).
> Kind regards
> Michael
But F flat _is_ different from E, especially in its relationship to 
other, 'normal' keys. F flat has a quite simple relation to G flat that 
might happen in real music. So I'm happy that LilyPond offers to 
explicitely write it down instead of refusing to do things, _she_ 
considers useless. Even if I'd probably never use it ...

Best
Urs
> ----- Originalnachricht -----
> Von: David Rogers [mailto:address@hidden
> Gesendet: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 06:18 PM
> An: Lilypond-user <address@hidden>
> Betreff: Re: F-flat Key Signature
>
> keith Luke <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Does anyone know why the flats appear our of order when the key
> > signature is F-flat?
>
> I'm really only summarizing what's been said: that it's probably already
> correct, that it's probably a bad idea to use it, and that the score is
> truly unreadable with the size mismatch between the staff and the things
> that are on it. I'd vote for E major in this section.