Re: tuplet error

[Aaron Hill]

On 2018-08-23 22:50, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> As a keyboard player who has recently taken up flute myself, I am 
> compelled
> to ask what you actually mean by this notation? To me it is not at all
> clear, and in my engraving work, clarity for the reader is my prime
> consideration at all times and in all contexts. Won't other players 
> also be
> confused? [I admit that this may be a common flute notation I have not 
> got
> up to yet.]

Not OP, but I believe that notation means to play a sequence of single 
note tremolos, with the single slash indicating eighth-note 
subdivisions.  So each dotted half is played as six eighth notes, 
following the specified tuplet timing.  That is, think of `g2.:8` as `g8 
8 8 8 8 8`.

-- Aaron Hill