Re: More ponderings on Chordmode

[David Kastrup]

"Peter Gentry" <address@hidden> writes:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Kastrup [mailto:address@hidden 
>>Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 10:50 AM
>>To: Peter Gentry
>>Cc: address@hidden; 'Christopher R. Maden'
>>Subject: Re: More ponderings on Chordmode
>>
>>"Peter Gentry" <address@hidden> writes:
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>>> Thanks Chris I guessed most of the format but the #.... 
>>Escaped me. To 
>>> # or not to # that is the question.....
>>>
>>>>     \chords {
>>>>       \set ChordNames.midiInstrument = #"acoustic guitar (steel)"
>>>>       \myChordsTransposed
>>>>     }
>>
>>I don't think that leaving off # here would have made a difference.
>>
>>--
>>David Kastrup
>
> Spot on it was redundant. 
>
> The main finding is that the sound produced for chords is not too
> good. I have tried a number of instruments and none of the sounds
> are satisfactory. Maybe the sustained nature of the chords has some
> effect or is the attack part of the sound still shaped as a
> concert piano. It is certainly different to the sound of the melody notes.

You are assigning more intelligence to the chords than is present.  More
likely than not something else is at work.  My guess is that you are
producing chord notes in both ChordNames context as well as somewhere
else.

Or that you expect guitar shapes from your chords but get piano shapes
instead (as is to be expected when using a ChordNames context instead of
gong through fret boards).

-- 
David Kastrup