Re: Mandolin Fretboards Not Displaying Correctly

[Federico Bruni]

2013/4/25 Samuel Campbell <address@hidden>

Do I need to specify my instrument as Mandolin in another way?  Or do I need to specify a tuning option?  I feel like this isn't complicated, but I'm missing something.

Yes, you must specify the string tuning:

\set Staff.stringTunings = #mandolin-tuning

See the examples here:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-fretted-strings#predefined-fret-diagrams