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Thread #52506 Message #1210191
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
18-Jun-04 - 07:47 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Creating New Fonts - Advice Please
Subject: RE: Tech: Creating New Fonts - Advice Please
"If the instrument is usually written in a different pitch to the actual sound (e.g. guitar sounds an octave lower than written) then this will need an adjustment option, not yet implemented."
Octave transposing instruments are not as difficult as things like saxaphones, etc, ('band instruments' mainly) which move by other intervals.
I've always wondered WHY (I do understand about transposing instruments) the istorical decision was taken to use 'transposed scoring' instead of 'play the note as she sounds' notation. Never having studied such instruments (with the exception of the whistle family!) I wonder why it still happens that way. I know that some players learn how to 'sight transpose'.