Re: Expanded fingering diagrams?

[Jacques Menu]

Hello Andrew,

Partial good news : in the so-called french system, the oboe d’amore shares the 
regular oboe fingering (it sounds just a minor third below), and the english 
horn just misses the low B flat key compared to the former.
As to the contrabassoon diagram, it is already part of LP as of 2.19.

The actual bad news is that those diagrams are programmed at a rather low 
level. You can look at define-woodwind-diagram.scm or 
define-woodwind-diagrams.scm, I don’t know the role each of them plays.

A nice day!

> Le 25 juin 2015 à 23:48, Wols Lists <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> On 25/06/15 22:17, N. Andrew Walsh wrote:
>> 
>> However, as the owner and player of (for example) a contrabassoon with a
>> key layout that differs from the one provided, I'd like to know: what
>> capabilities are there for expanding the library of diagrams? What
>> about, for example, bass flute? Or the Kingma system flute (which has
>> keys for quartertones)? What about the French bassoon, or the German
>> clarinet? Oboe d'amore, English Horn, Heckelphone? Brass instruments?
> 
> As a brass player, I've thought about adding automatic fingering for
> them, but it's fairly tricky. Okay, the notation is simple, any
> combination of "123" in the basic form, but obviously *some* instruments
> have a fourth valve, the trombone has a slide and sometimes a 4th AND
> 5TH valve, and quite often despite 13 and 4 being nominally the same,
> they're in practice noticeably different.
> 
> So doing fingering for brass would be pretty easy. Getting it to do a
> good job without a lot of effort, wouldn't. (But that's probably true of
> most areas :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol
> (Who was thinking of this back in the 2.4 days ...)
> 
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