More instruments!
Hey everyone,
Apparently this is the right place to post. My background is in folk music (mostly Irish, some American old-time, Italian, and other), so I decided to add some folk instruments! Attached is a .txt with xml data for a variety of instruments, many with additional tab options. A majority are Latin American (esp. Mexican) instruments (like the charango, huapanguera, bajo sexto, cajon [three kinds of cajon, actually], etc), plus a few European (Irish bouzouki, chitarra battente, bassetto, etc.), and an instrument indigenous to California, the clapper stick. These should help (hopefully) people arrange for mariachi ensembles, Irish groups, and so on. Some of the clefs might not be correct (maybe up or down an octave).
Hope you all enjoy!
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Comments
I had a closer look into your file and noticed a few things:
<musicXMLid>drum.tamburello</musicXMLid>
but https://github.com/w3c/musicxml/blob/gh-pages/schema/sounds.xml doesn't have all of them (it does havedrum.bodhran
,drum.tamborita
,pluck.chitarra-battente
,pluck.huapanguera
,pluck.guitar.requinto
,pluck.charango
,pluck.vihuela
though. It also hasdrum.pandero
,drum.cajon
,wood.bones
,pluck.bass.guitarron
,pluck.bajo
,pluck.jarana-huasteca
,pluck.jarana-jarocha
, which might be close enough for your`s). I don't think you can or should just 'invent' them, but should use existing ones. Or get the standard's body to add them. Else MusicXML im- and export of those is not going to work properly.<pPitchRange>43==50-72</pPitchRange>
, does that really work? Looks like a typo to me, I guess the==50
should get deleted.Once those issues are sorted I think we should merge this into MuseScore's instruments.xml.
(attached unchanged but with the 'proper' extension)
In reply to I had a closer look into… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you for the reply! I am not versed in music xml (and have only the faintest experience with coding of any kind), so that github link is super helpful. I didn't know what libraries the tags were referencing, I was just following what seemed to be a pattern with other instruments in the original file. ;)
I'll take another pass with with that reference in hand (and maybe add a handful more instruments) and upload them in this thread.
Thanks again! :)
In reply to Thank you for the reply! I… by tulesounds
See also #10359: Cajon staff
In reply to See also #10359: Cajon staff by Jojo-Schmitz
Well, just about a year later, I finally revisited this! I've added more instruments than before and I THINK I got all the right music xml sounds right this time. I haven't tested every single instrument that I've added, so there may be a few instruments that need to be assigned a different clef given their range, but I hope not!
In reply to Well, just about a year… by tulesounds
Fixed a few things, this is better for sure.
In reply to Fixed a few things, this is… by toastyplace
I've added your instrument list as my second instrument list inside of Musescore (after changing the format to .xml) but I can't seem to get any of the sounds. Am I missing something?
Hello,How can I add this instrument to my musescore?. thank
In reply to Hello,How can I add this… by Arhiel Dilaurenz
Edit > Preferences > Score > Instrument list 2