Re: confused about transposing

[Paul Scott]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> J. Daniel Ashton writes:
>
>  
>
> > Developers, this is confusing to those of us who are transposing for (or
> > from) a non-C instrument (trumpet, clarinet, sax, etc.)  I want to say:
> >  \transpose c bf
> > and get a trumpet part from, say, a piano part.  I'm thinking "I have a
> > C part, I need B-flat part."  Buf it seems to need to be the other way
> > around.
> >    
>
> What's wrong with \transpose bf c
>
> Jan.
>
>  
That transposes up a whole step when to get from a B flat part to a C 
part one needs to transpose down a whole step.

Paul Scott