string instruments - What gives a Chinese Pipa its unique timbre in . . . A bowl backed mandolin still has a 'guitarish' character (ignoring the double coursing) There are pipa with resonance holes (some historical some modern) I don't think an alternative tuning would be enough to make a guiar sound like a pipa As I understand it a modern pipa uses nylon strings wrapped in steel so they are similar to guitar strings
How to create a spanner for a fingering in lilypond I'm engraving scores for pipa, a sibling instrument of classical guitar (Pipa and guitar do have the same ancestor from central Asia) One of the most common right-hand fingering on pipa is called Lunzhi, literally "rotating fingers"
Music notation software for JianPu and erhu notation My wife's band, which features the erhu, uses music notation like the page shown below We want to take hand-written scanned faxed from stained napkins with bad handwriting and two-side bleedthrough and turn it into neatly typed pages like this
What is the difference between portamento and glissando? Although the two terms are often conflated, and although there are plenty of situations where the difference isn't noticeable, the intended difference is that portamento is a relatively quick pitch slide between all or most of the notes during a melody or melody section
What is a raga? - Music: Practice Theory Stack Exchange I think the "non-constructible set" concept is actually more confusing than descriptions of what a raga is As far as I can tell, a raga is a whole group of musical concepts put together to form a framework from which an entire work of music can be created
How do I convert Piano songs for Guitar? Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
Glissando vs Arpeggio - Music: Practice Theory Stack Exchange Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
Piano and Guitar are the same music sheets? In addition to the other answers, I would say that music written expressly for guitar is usually going to be different from music written expressly for piano, even in the same piece of music, because the instruments are different