Re: 5 string Banjo Tab

[Éric]

David,
thanks very much for sharing this Lilypond TabTranslator.
A neophyte Schemer question : is it difficult to modify it to have a
traditionnal 6 line tablature for instruments with more than 6 strings ? (7
strings but 7 lines in your exemple)

Letters instead of numbers, that's standart for lutenists.
How difficult is it for others to do so ? I don't know, after so many years
of use.

Off subject :
Pushing further the letters usage, I'm using "VocaTab", a full-letter-system
(only for memorie practice of solo playing).
The number of string is replaced by a voyelle, so that you can prononce (at
least mentally) : \1 is a, \2 is e, \3 is i, \4 is o, \5 is u, \6 is y.
Then if necessary, \7 is z, and then \8 is A, \9 is E, etc… (note that
capitals mimics the top strings, corresponding to tablature signs for
additionnal basses "\a" (one bar) "\\a" (two bars) etc…).

Thus, using VocaTab, your exemple starts as : 
<eo di ce>4 q8 de | <co ci de>16 ce ce8 <ao ai ce>16 ae32 di ae8 |

If ever it make sense for someone else than me (!?), then, it should be
possible to use these tablature-codes as note-names in an another kind of
TabTranslator in Lilypond ?

VocaTab was inspired by — often called "hermetic"— XVI century german lute
tablature.

Éric



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