Re: Woodwind Fingering diagrams problem

[Wim van Dommelen]

Hi Joseph,

On 29 Jan 2013, at 23:22 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:

>   -- more realistic key shapes and placement for the diagrams (this  
> is a
>      minor quibble, but nice if it can be done);
>
>   -- an option to display unused as well as used keys (Wim's request);
E.g. with a property '(showall . #t)', see discussion below.

>   -- an option to place the diagram upside down, so looking at it  
> you see
>      what you see as a player looking down the instrument.  I've  
> seen this
>      used in one or two different fingering references and it has some
>      merit, even though I most likely wouldn't use it myself.
That would probably be a global addition to presenting a (graphical)  
diagram, not necessarily placed inside the woodwind code. Searching  
for this I found a remark with "upsidedown" in a discussion on fret  
properties. If that would be implemented as a wrapper function, it  
could do more. A woodwind wrapper function could be called (or  
modified) for example like this:

	\set woodwindProperties = #'((color . red) (graphical . #f)  
(upsidedown . #t) (showall . #f))

The upsidedown would be your request, the '(graphical . #f)' already  
exists in another format (currently: '\override #'(graphical . #f)',  
page 370/371 of the version 2.16.0 notation manual). Maybe both the  
woodwind and fret (and more?) could use a generic wrapper function.  
The real syntax I leave to the real programmers. Properties "size" and  
"thickness" are already available now, but could be integrated.

> Besides this, I think it's worth giving some careful thought to how  
> best to support members of the clarinet family with extended range  
> (i.e. low Eb, D, Db, C; there are a few instruments that also have a  
> low B).
That is why the "low-bass-clarinet" stencil exists. That is (as I  
reverse engineer it) intended for bass-clarinet toward low-C (the  
concert model) whereas the "bass-clarinet" is the low-Ees (streetmodel).

> There may be more, but I think that's it.  If you like, I could see  
> about making a scan of a page or two from Philip Rehfeldt's "New  
> Directions for Clarinet" which indicates appropriate key names and  
> has examples using a key-name based fingering system.
Mmmhh, sounds interesting.

> Best wishes,
>
>    -- Joe

Regards,
Wim.