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Non-guitar tablatures

There are many ways to customize Lilypond tablatures.

First you can change the number of strings, by setting the number of lines in the TabStaff (the line-count property of TabStaff can only be changed using \outputproperty, for more information, see Tuning per object. You can change the strings tuning. A string tuning is given as a Scheme list with one integer number for each string, the number being the pitch of an open string.

(The numbers specified for stringTuning are the numbers of semitons to subtract -- or add -- starting the specified pitch by default middle C, in string order: thus the notes are e, a, d & g)

       \context TabStaff <
     
         \outputproperty #(make-type-checker 'staff-symbol-interface)
                         #'line-count = #4
         \property TabStaff.stringTunings =  #'(-5 -10 -15 -20)
     
         \notes {
           a,4 c' a e' e c' a e'
         }
       >
     
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Finally, it is possible to change the Scheme function to format the tablature note text. The default is fret-number-tablature-format, which uses the fret number, but for some instruments that may not use this notation, just create your own tablature-format function. This function takes three argument: the string number, the string tuning and the note pitch.

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