Re: Lilypond's English Horn MIDI instrument is non-transposing?

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> Subject: Re: Lilypond's English Horn MIDI instrument is non-transposing?

> On 13/01/2022 21:40, James B. Wilkinson wrote:
>> If I make it with the English horn part correctly transposed, the MIDI sounds
>> terrible. If I make it with the English horn part untransposed, it sounds 
>> fine.
>> My conclusion is that the midiInstrument "english horn" reads its part in C
>> rather than in F. Shouldn't it play the notes that a real English horn would?
> 
> Out of curiosity, and speaking as a Brit! what on earth is an "English
> Horn"? Is the instrument the English call a Cor Anglais?
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol

Yes, French "Cor" (horn) "Anglais" (English).  That said, it's my understanding 
that this is, in fact, a mistranslation as it was called an "angle horn" (cor 
d'angle).

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-David