Fiddle tuning

[Erik Ronström]

Hi,

I am typesetting an old book of Swedish fiddle tunes. Some of the tunes
have a non-standard fiddle tuning, shown as four noteheads without
stems just in front of the actual music (much like the ambitius
notation). The noteheads are also marked with the note names to the
right.

I tried the following approach:

\notes {
    \override Stem #'print-function = ##f
    \override Score.TimeSignature #'print-function = ##f
    \partial 4
    <e'' a' e' a >^\markup { \italic Stämning. }
    \revert Stem #'print-function
    \revert Score.TimeSignature #'print-function
  
    ... music
}

This works quite well, however, there are still some problems:

1) The tune has repeats (\repeat volta 2). Normally, the first starting
repeat sign is hidden, since it is implicit in the beginning of the
tune. Now it is shown, and I can't find a good way to hide it.

2) The \markup should space out like \fatText, but I still like to have
the \italic option

3) I cannot figure out how to put note names to the right of the
note-heads. It would be nice to use the fingering mechanism with \set
fingeringOrientations, but can that be done with custom texts?

Regards
Erik


        
        
                
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