Questions tagged [pipa]
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What gives a Chinese Pipa its unique timbre in comparison with a guitar?
Similar to this broader question How do East Asian instruments (Shamisen, pipa, etc.) get their unique sound?
Though they a similar in many ways a guitar and a pipa sound very different.
Could you ...
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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 ...
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Slurs with arrows for glissando-alikes in Lilypond, how to?
I'm using Lilypond 2.20 on Ubuntu to engrave scores for the instrument pipa.
Slurs with arrow is a very common notation in many east Asian music pieces. It sounds similar to glissando in some degree, ...
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