Re: [Frescobaldi] Bass and Electric Bass template, tab tunings support

[Grammostola Rosea]

Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> op woensdag 18 februari 2009, schreef David:
>   
> > Standard Electric basses have four strings, so that would probably be
> > useful to most people using a Bass/Tab template. That being said--5, 6,
> > 7 and more strings are becoming more and more common all the time.
> >     
>
> Currently Frescobaldi's Bass and Electric Bass template inherit the basic 
> TablaturePart features also found in the other tablature instruments, When 
> tablature (TabStaff) is chosen, it presents the tuning option Bass Tuning 
> (stringTunings = #bass-tuning). If you choose bass tuning, the TabStaff 
> template has four strings. Is that good, or should I add support for other 
> options/tuning?
>   
I think four strings is good, but maybe it would be nice to have a 
possibility to choose also five strings if you got an five string 
bass... (I didn't know there are six string basses too, until David told 
it...)

> I like to provide UI options for the predefined LilyPond tunings (that are in 
> the docs) and I'm a bit reluctant to add custom tunings, but of course it 
> would be possible to even create a small Custom Tuning Wizard inside the score 
> wizard. Please let me know if that would be an important feature for any of 
> you, or if you have any other wishes/bug report regarding Frescobaldi in 
> general (or use the bug tracker[1]) or it's tablature instrument support in 
> particular.
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/lilykde/issues/list
>
> with many regards,
> Wilbert Berendsen
>
>