Re: tab

[Lamy Jean-Baptiste]

David and Rune, what do you think of the Han-Wen's proposition (Identifying
strings by their note name) ?

If you are right, i'll work on it in about 2 weeks (after my exams).

Jiba


> > > strings by notenames:
> > > 
> > >   e4-c
> > 
> > That's what I like, but many have more than one of a given name,
> > which makes an arbitrary 1-9 a-z a better choice.  Many
> > instruments, actually all of them with only 3 strings, have two
> > strings tuned to the exact same note.
> 
> The higher string could use the pitch with octavation quote; that is
> consistent with the rest of lily
> 
> > > would be the E played on the C string. In this way, the string
> > > designations are independent of other strings that are added or
> > > removed, and fingerings are independent of the tablature.
> > 
> > That would be g'^4-e or g'^4-1 or g'^4-m where m is for mi, since
> > the guitar has two E strings.  ^4 is in the notation and 3 is in
> > the tablature.  ^4 is a fingering indication, 3 is the fret the
> > note is on.  Not independent.  Not the same thing.
> 
> Yes, but you can use them  both, that's  what I mean with independent.
> 
> > As I posted long ago, English lute tab used abcdefghi... instead of
> > 0123456789 10 11 12... for frets.  That also could be settable:
> 
> This a different topic, and IIRC lily can already produce letters for
> frets.