Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

[Hans Aberg]

On 25 Sep 2009, at 08:42, Graham Breed wrote:

> For the code I have, pitch names are defined as:
>
> HEPitchNames = #`(
>  (c . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 0 0))
>  (g . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 4 10/1023))
>  (edown . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 2 -75/1096))
>  (bflatseven . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 -162/247))
>  (d . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 1 20/1023))
>
> and so on.

Why are the octave numbers here -1?

  Hans