Re: need to lower guitar pitch by a scale octave for midi output

[Jan Kohnert]

Am Dienstag 13 Juli 2004 06:26 schrieb Patrick Stanistreet:
> I wrote in an earlier note that I am converting my 1.6.10 lily files
> to 2.2.0 and for the most part it is working.  The code that I was
> using to lower the midi pitch of the guitar an octave does not
> seem to be working,
> Here is the convert-ly output
>
>      \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"acoustic guitar (nylon)"
>      \set Staff.instrument = "guitar"
>      \set Staff.transposing = -12
>
> Lily doesnt like the above code though, so I would like to know how
> to get the  pitch lowered.


Why don't you use 
\clef "treble_8"
in your guitar parts. Then you have a "real" guitar score and you can specify 
the notes one octave lower. It would surely be too much work to change this 
in your previous files but for future work, if ou like this one.

> Thanks

Your welcome :-)

Best regards Jan

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