Re: [Denemo-devel] Instrument templates

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 22:53 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
>         Are you planning some Keyboard ones too - piano and organ
>         especially?
>         
> 
> 
> Yes. I was wondering how how to to allow the range of the left hand
> part and how low to allow the range in right hand parts. I would
> assume that if you need to go beyond 3 ledger you might as well have
> switched clef.

well you frequently see piano music with 4 or 5 ledger lines and both
hands could have the same range (you see both changing to treble clef or
to bass clef). It's not crucial, it's only a hint, not so much use for
instruments with very large ranges.


>  I think I am also supposed to set the lilypond instrument as well as
> the staff instrument. I don't know how to that would copying the
> clarinet template.

Start from a piano staff, add an extra staff for pedals for organ. The
part-name should be the same for all the staffs and the MIDI channel too
(I'm not sure that adding the instrument preserves this however - it
needs to be scripted).
The LilyPond MIDI instrument needs to be emitted (I guess once)- this is
done when you select the MIDI instrument in the MIDI tab of the staff
props dialog.


>  I assume this need to be applied to both right hand and left hand
> staves.

I think LilyPond may assign the same channel to these - needs testing...
it may be that it will assign one per staff... needs testing...

Richard