Chinese erhu
Just looked at the long list of ethnic instruments in version 2, but no Chinese erhu. Only, a casual suggestion - maybe it's too difficult to include.
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Just looked at the long list of ethnic instruments in version 2, but no Chinese erhu. Only, a casual suggestion - maybe it's too difficult to include.
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It's not a question of difficulty. An instrument as ar as MuseScore is concerned is just a name and information abotu what the default clef should, whether it transposes, etc. That takes a few seconds to add. But if you were expecting the *sound* of ay givenn instrument, that's a question of the soundfont you use. MuseScore by default supports only General MIDI soundfonts, and that instrument is not defined by General MIDI. So you'd need to find a specialized soundfont that incldued that instrument.
Meanwhile, you could just create a violin track and change the name to "Erhu" and it will be the same as if MuseScore supported it directly - again, to MuseScore, an instrument is just a name & clef. And then maybe file an "official" feature request via the Issue Tracker (as opposed to the forum) to have it included.
Hi Jonga :)
If you post details about range, clefs used and any other details about this instrument (do I gather that it's a Chinese ethnic violin?). Then I will add it to the instrument list.
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Thanks for the replies. I’m no expert, but I think traditional notation is in Chinese and quite different from a Western musical stave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu), so I suppose all I want really is the sound font, so that it plays from a Western stave. I see there is a post regarding a plugin (http://musescore.org/en/project/erhu), but maybe it could be incorporated into the main instrument lists.
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So somewhat like a violin with only the inner 2 strings.
At least that seems to be the default tuning?
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No, no such thing as a different stave in the wikipedia page you listed. Maybe you are talking about the numbered / Rousseau notation I guess? And I think the difference is in the tuning of the instrument. I am no expert for that, but I heard that the F and B are tuned 50cents higher and lower respectively, so perhaps you can work with the tuning setting....