Re: Describing instruments

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:06:32PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> If you transpose music, Lilypond could warn if notes become unplayable
> on a baroque soprano recorder.  Because the range is left, or because a
> particular semitone is not on the instrument.  Similar for other
> instruments.
...
> It would also be helpful for arrangers and composers to have a databank
> of instruments available, so that they don't go to the orchestra with
> their finished scores and get told "Dude, that's not playable on a
> standard bassoon."

I don't think that lilypond should serve as a crutch to composer
who know so little about their craft that they write unplayable
notes.  But if you want to persue this, feel free to write a music
function which checks the ranges (or anything else) and add it to
LSR.

Cheers,
- Graham