Re: notation of wind chimes

[David Wright]

On Thu 28 Jul 2016 at 19:40:44 (+0200), bart deruyter wrote:
> ok, some progress :-)
> 
> I found something with the aid of Musescore. I'm not sure if it's correct
> though. The Dutch translation of "wind chimes" I found on google translate
> was "wind klokkenspel", which sounds very unnatural, I assumed it just
> combined two words, wind and chimes, but Musescore seems to use the same.
> There is a bug in the instrument naming, it shows "wiind" (double i), which
> is a typo, but if that's a typo, chances are it is completely wrong too.
> 
> Musescore shows a single line staff, I hope that is correct.
> >
> > this is not a lilypond-specific question, but I guess I might find
> > something here :-) . I'm writing down some music I first made in Ardour,
> > with orchestral sample libraries.
> >
> > I'm not quite familiar with percussion notation. I make use of wind chimes
> > in the music. it already seems impossible to find a good translation for it
> > in Dutch but finding a description of how to write it down seems too much
> > for google :-p.
> >
> > If someone here knows of a good, in depth online reference about the rules
> > of percussion notation in general, and/or about how to write something like
> > wind chimes, I'd very much appreciate it.

I don't know how others are faring, but I can't decide what you mean
by wind chimes. Are you talking about the sort of things that half the
houses in America have hanging in the porch:
http://www.shopsteins.com/magento/media/catalog/category/wind-chimes.jpg
or half the church praise bands have hanging off the drumkit:
http://www.sabian.com/img/cymbals/61174a-24-bar-chimes-aluminum_full.png
or something else?

Cheers,
David.