[tablatures] Re: palm mute vs. pinched harmonics

[Marc Hohl <marc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Schmidt schrieb:
> Hi Marc,
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> first of all: thanks for all your brilliant work on tablature functions!
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> 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.
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I know the use of p.m. and the extender line, and this is already 
supported by lilypond via text spanners.

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.

David, do you have informations for us about palm mute vs. pinched 
harmonics?

Marc
> What do you and the others think of this?
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> Cheers,
> patrick
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