Kord
Languages and libraries
music theory library
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
9 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.44.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for teaching and scale charts
From 2 comments
Hi. I've just had a quick look, and I've already found the fretboard.py app useful. I have a 9-string guitar (low C#, F#, B below the usual strings) which I've never really made…
djaychela on HNVery cool project. I particularly like fretboard.py, I'm a sucker for charming command line tools like this. For what it's worth, I have a bachelor's in classical guitar and I…
Timpy on HN
Charming command line tool
From 1 comment
Very cool project. I particularly like fretboard.py, I'm a sucker for charming command line tools like this. For what it's worth, I have a bachelor's in classical guitar and I…
Timpy on HN
Objections
Name may infringe the KORD trademark
From 1 comment
You might be infringing a trademark - KORD.
systemvoltage on HN
Requests
Screenshots or animated gif in README
From 2 comments
Nice idea. I would love to know how the fretboard visualizer works and looks like, but am too lazy to install and run the tool. Could you add an animated gif or at least some…
tda on HNAwesome project! In terms of getting people excited about it, embedding a screenshot or two in the README would go a long way, I think. Congrats on shipping!
dceddia on HN
Show a single scale form instead of the full fretboard
From 1 comment
Very cool project. I particularly like fretboard.py, I'm a sucker for charming command line tools like this. For what it's worth, I have a bachelor's in classical guitar and I…
Timpy on HN
Machine-readable data output
From 1 comment
Looks cool! You asked for feedback, from a quick look: * I suspect you may have created the IO lib, bestia, to learn and because is fun, but if you use existing libs like…
emmanueloga_ on HN
Questions
Why use a custom IO library instead of Prompt-Toolkit
From 1 comment
Looks cool! You asked for feedback, from a quick look: * I suspect you may have created the IO lib, bestia, to learn and because is fun, but if you use existing libs like…
emmanueloga_ on HN
Alternatives named
Harmony Explorer
From 1 comment
I am working on a similar project called Harmony Explorer [0], which was spawned out of how challenging I find it to remember note names of chords and to figure out chord names…
tiniuclx on HN
Chordnamer
From 1 comment
In a similar thread, I made a Python command line tool which tells you what chord you're playing---either on guitar, or on any other stringed instrument (with custom tunings…
leafmeal on HN
music21
From 1 comment
Looks cool! You asked for feedback, from a quick look: * I suspect you may have created the IO lib, bestia, to learn and because is fun, but if you use existing libs like…
emmanueloga_ on HN