Re: Harp Pedals?

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 8/14/08 4:21 PM, "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> One more possible improvement: if you look well at the jpeg sample
> Steve provided us with in the first place, you'll see that the
> vertical line is actually at the middle of the horizontal line (hence
> my problems with the three left boxes being spaced differently than
> the right boxes). I haven't seen (or written) any harp score for a
> while, but as far as I can remember the symbol is usually printed this
> way (since the pedals are actually kind of symmetric on the actual
> instrument).

Looking on the web for harp pedal indications, I came across ThesisFont,
which supports harp pedal indications.

http://hometown.aol.com/loudfonts/ThesiFnt.htm#7

They don't show the indications in use, but in their font, the axis is
asymmetrical -- the vertical line appears left of center of the horizontal
line.

They also indicate a circled pedal indication to show that the harp pedal
arrangement has changed.  Should this be added to the markup?

They reference Stone pp. 226-56; I don't have access to Stone to see for
myself.

Carl