Re: quarter tones in tablature - FretBoards

[dan]

On 2015-10-31 12:49, pls wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > On 2015-10-31 11:39, pls wrote:
> > > Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > Personally, I don't like any of those and lean towards excluding
> > > > quarter-tones from FretBoards at all and let output the warning 
> > > > about
> > > > "Missing fret for pitch ~a on string ~a" as before.
> > > > Letting only TabStaff display quarter-tones.
> > >
> > > I'm of the same opinion as it doesn't/shouldn't really matter
> > > pitchwise where exactly you
> > > place your finger within a fret space on a fretted instrument.
> >
> > I'm no guitarist, but don't they sometimes pull sideways on the string
> > or use a mechanical attachment to sharpen a note?
>
> Yes, pull-offs are quite common but it's rather a technique to pluck 
> the
> string with your fretting hand.  With "mechanical attachment" you're
> probably alluding to a capo.  It acts like a sort of artificial
> "barre".  It fits around the neck of the guitar and raises the pitch of
> all (or only some of the) strings.  LilyPond already displays capo
> indications as a thick bar
> in fret diagrams.  Bottlenecks are also used to sharpen or lower a
> note. It works like some sort of a "movable fret".
> But I've never seen quarter tone indications in fret diagrams.
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick

I was thinking of things like these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrato_systems_for_guitar

> BTW: Did you deliberately not reply to the list?

No.  I'm stuck using an unfamiliar web-mail interface while my main 
computer is being repaired; I must have hit the wrong button.  Thanks 
for noticing.
--
Dan