[tablatures] 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.

What do you and the others think of this?

Cheers,
patrick
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