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LilyPond contains special definitions for music for the Scottish highland bagpipe; to use them, add
\include "bagpipe.ly"
at the top of your input file. This lets you add the special gracenotes
common to bagpipe music with short commands. For example, you could
write \taor
instead of
\grace { \small G32[ d G e] }
bagpipe.ly
also contains pitch definitions for the bagpipe
notes in the appropiate octaves, so you do not need to worry about
\relative
or \transpose
.
\include "bagpipe.ly" { \grg G4 \grg a \grg b \grg c \grg d \grg e \grg f \grA g A }
Bagpipe music nominally uses the key of D Major (even though that
isn't really true). However, since that is the only key that can be used,
the key signature is normally not written out. To set this up correctly,
always start your music with \hideKeySignature
. If you for some
reason want to show the key signature, you can use \showKeySignature
instead.
Some modern music use cross fingering on c and f to flatten those notes.
This can be indicated by cflat
or fflat
. Similarly, the
piobaireachd high g can be written gflat
when it occurs in light
music.
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