Re: mute percussion notation

[Bernard]

Hi Colin,
> It seems that the Percussion Notes table A.15 in the NR has some 
> problems, in that the conga notes aren't visibly different. This 
> snippet works for me:
> *****************
> \version "2.19.37"
>
> \new DrumStaff  \with {
>   drumStyleTable  = #congas-style
> }
>  <<
>   \drummode {
>      cghm4 cghm1 % muted
>     \bar "||"
>       cgh4 cgh1 % open
>     }
>  >>
> **************************
This works fine for me also, thanks.

But for me it is not sufficient to create Djembé drumnotes.

I followed the link Thomas Morley gave me previous to customize percussion :

http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-percussion#custom-percussion-staves

Which brought me very far.

I could even customize the markup of each (drum)note with info from 
http://lilypond-cookbook.tumblr.com/

I am very, very close. I could use the predefined bassdrum (bd) and 
bassdrum mute (bdm) the note image is ok, the mute token is correct. But 
I have to choose one specific staff line where the note is displayed. 
But the Djembé has three different kind of note, each one I would like 
to place on a different staffline. So I have to define my own drumnote.

Lilypond is highly flexible and many drumnotes are predefined. But I 
could not find info how to define my own drumnote.

I tried :

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\version "2.18.2"

#(define mydrums '(
         (bassdrum        default   #f           -1)
         (slap                 default   #f          0)))
one = \drummode {  bd  slap  }

\new DrumStaff
  \with {
      \override StaffSymbol #'line-count = #3
     }
   <<
  \set DrumStaff.drumStyleTable = #(alist->hash-table mydrums)

  \new DrumVoice { \voiceOne \one }
>>

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But this results an error. althougth drumnote "slap" is defined it can 
not be used.
The error message with the use of "slap" was : unrecognised string
This example was based on :

http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-percussion#custom-percussion-staves

Somewhere the "slap" note have to predefined, as the bassdrum note is. 
But how?

Thanks for all your help until now.

> Cheers,
> Colin