[tablatures] Re: palm mute vs. pinched harmonics

["Patrick Schmidt" <p.l.schmidt@xxxxxx>]

> > Hi Marc,
> >
> > first of all: thanks for all your brilliant work on tablature functions!
> >
> > As I'm currently engaged in documenting your functions I know it's a bit
> late to start a discussion on one of them. I just wanted to mention that I
> have never come across a classical or pop/rock score using triangled note
> heads for palm muting. The (many) guitar editions I own use the
> abbreviation P. M. and an extender line (e.g.: P. M. ---------¬) for palm muting. A
> triangled note head is quite often used to illustrate pinched harmonics (see
> files attached). From my point of view something like \pinchedHarmonics
> instead of \palmMute would be more appropriate for triangled note heads. Many
> guitar magazines print the fret numbers of pinched harmonics in triangles
> in tablature.
> >   
> I know the use of p.m. and the extender line, and this is already 
> supported by lilypond via text spanners.
True.
> 
> In at least one guitar magazine I found the triagle-shaped note heads 
> for palm mute
> which seems to be very convenient if the guitar line switches very often 
> from palm mute to open
> and back again (think of Metallica or the whole bunch of bands tuning 
> their axes down to the limit -
> here the permanent use of p.m. w/extender lines isn't really much fun, 
> neither to read nor to code in lilypond).
> 
> Personally, I didn't see (at least I can't remember) the triangle for 
> pinched harmonics - but if there is a
> majority for this style of writing, we surely should adapt lilypond's 
> behavior in this case.
I did a quick (non-representative) empirical study ;-) and I must admit that actually only one guitar magazine (Total Guitar) uses a triangle note head for pinched harmonics but the majority of publishing companies seems to use P.M. for palm muting. Which magazine/edition uses the triangle note head for palm muted notes?

It's only a minor issue anyway. But maybe I should also create a snippet with P.M. and an extender line?!

thanks again
patrick
> 
> David, do you have informations for us about palm mute vs. pinched 
> harmonics?
> 
> Marc
> > What do you and the others think of this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > patrick
> >   
> >
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