Re: Guitars with capos

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On 01/02/14 08:05, Federico Bruni wrote:
> 2014/2/1 Rachael Thomas Carlson <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>>
> 
>     Sometimes the standard notation is at sounding pitch and sometimes
>     it is at pitch as if there were no capo.
> 
> 
> In all books I know (staff + tabstaff) I always see the latter: pitch as
> if it were no capo.
> I use transpose in the midi block so it plays at sounding pitch.
> 
In all books I know (which are piano score with chord accompaniment) it
is written at sounding pitch, with the capo pitch in brackets, eg for
capo 2 you might see "D(C)".

I've never seen a dedicated guitar score with capo, so I can't comment
on that.

I don't think it made it into lilypond (I've still got the code) but I
wrote a modification to the chord code that would automatically produce
the bracketed notation.

If that's wanted, I can dig it up again (life happened, and having got
it working I didn't get it into a form acceptable to the maintainers... :-(

Cheers,
Wol