add mountain dulcimer incl. a tab preset
Currently, MuseScore does not allow to enter tabs for diatonic fretted instruments. This request comes up regularly.
It mainly concerns the mountain/appalachian dulcimer instrument (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_dulcimer), whose roots are European with the zitter family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zither
See discussions:
- https://musescore.org/en/node/151286
- https://musescore.org/en/node/69441
- https://musescore.org/en/node/148071
- https://musescore.org/en/node/11943
- https://musescore.org/en/node/88646
It also concerns instruments of early music, the renaissance cittern, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cittern (and here, end of page: http://www.cittern.theaterofmusic.com/faq/index.html)
But also contemporary derivative instruments eg among others: http://www.seagullguitars.com/en/products/m4 (discussion: https://musescore.org/fr/node/123921)
and: https://strumstick.com/pages/history-of-the-strumstick
Comments
Interesting discussion here https://musescore.org/en/node/88646#comment-679091
Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/260911
In reply to Came up again in https:/… by Jojo-Schmitz
Once more (see comment/link below)
In reply to Once more: https://musescore… by cadiz1
namely https://musescore.org/en/node/268516 ?
Related request in https://musescore.org/en/node/270140? concerning microtone tablatures.
Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/275194
Came up again #284406: 6+1/2 fret for Appalachian Dulcimer
Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/285564
In reply to Came up again in https:/… by mike320
And in: https://musescore.org/en/node/307536
fwiw, I have been learning Mtn Dulcimer and would like to pile-on to this request for support of that instrument's odd fret numbering scheme. The vast majority of Mtn Dulcimer folk are using TablEdit as it explicitly supports the "+" fret notation. But, honestly, that program is pretty painful to use as compared to Musescore (plus I'm all-Linux, and TablEdit is Windows). I do have some light coding skills and am willing to contribute. But watching the commentary on this over the past few years leads me to believe this is likely beyond my skill level to take on. Still, if I can help, I will!
Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/309301, for Mountain Dulcimer
See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/6470
Fixed in branch master, commit be075a7f2e
Fix #153016: Add mountain dulcimer incl. a tab preset
waiting for the fix in 3.6
That fix still won't allow instruments be diatonic fretted, will it? As far as I know MuseScore code still assumes that frets are always tuned chromatically, and support for diatonic frets would require some more changes in libmscore itself.
In reply to That fix still won't allow… by dmitrio95
Correct - this allows for chromatic tab only. Also correct that to support diatonic probably requires a significant code change (esp as the modern mtn dulcimer isn't strictly diatonic, so likely can't be reduced to a clean algorithm).
Fixed in branch 3.x, commit 3a98ba9325
fix #153016: add mountain dulcimer incl. a tab preset + collect_artifacts
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.
I don't know why this feature request was closed. As said by @rocchio, "this (ie "add mountain dulcimer" as instrument) allows for chromatic tab only"
Nothing to do with diatonic tab, as sufficiently clear in the title: diatonic fretted instruments
I reopen.
One more in: https://musescore.org/en/node/316338#comment-1058218
This issue originally was about adding appalachian dulcimer. That got done, issue closed.
Then for some invisible reason the title got changed into something entirely differnt, something that needs a new issue
In reply to This issue originally was… by Jojo-Schmitz
???
Please, where, when, and why the "original" title (mine) was changed? It's a minima a mistake.
In more, by reading entirely my first exposition/comment, you would have noted this request was not originally about adding appalachian dulcimer only. All instruments (zittern family, renaissance cittern, strumstick etc. ) with diatonic frets were concerned.
Just open a new one and let this here rest in peace
Unfortunately, I'm afraid there is a complete confusion exactly what it was about. It was a request about indeed mainly the Appalachian dulcimer (simply because it is the fretted instrument mostly used nowadays with this kind of fret arrangement) but not only as noted above.
You have missed the demand was about the TAB perfectly reflects the diatonic, I repeat, character of these instruments.
You can see the difference in display here (first TAb, chromatic current result, Second TAB, wished diatonic result)
As this point, I prefer to open a new thread, as expressed in the Google summer of code idea.
Yes, please. Diatonig instruments as a whole would be needed, not just strung ones, also Accordions, harmonicas and probably some more
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.