Re: drumstaff vs rhythmicstaff

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> \markup "Shouldn't these two yield identical results?"
> % context: see example from David Aldridge's Rhythm book
> % mentioned on Finale blog and discussed on lilypond blog
> % 
> http://lilypondblog.org/2013/07/creating-anything-you-can-imagine-with-finale/
>
> \new RhythmicStaff { c'1 c'1 }
>
> \new DrumStaff \with {
>   \override StaffSymbol #'line-count = #1
> }
> {
>   c'1 c'1
> }

Why should they?  They are different staves for different purposes.
It's actually an abuse of \DrumStaff to use notes in it, and more like
an accident that those land on the remaining staffline (the
Drum_notes_engraver apparently just picks the middle line if it cannot
find a drum-type on a NoteEvent).

The MIDI will be silent on the second example.

-- 
David Kastrup