I am not sure if this is related to Picard or to MusicBrainz’s instrument database:
I entered the instrument named EWI for a musician.
It looks o.k. on the website, but in Picard it ends up as e w i
It looks like Picard is maybe treating it as an acronym?
(while EWI is derived from ‘electronic wind instrument’ it is an instrument name)
EWI (from electronic wind instrument, pronounced EE-wee) is a type of wind controller, an electronic musical instrument. It was invented by Nyle Steiner, who conceptualized the idea in the 1960s, and developed the first working models in the 1970s.
The early models consisted of two parts: a wind controller and a digitally-controlled analog synthesizer in a rackmount box (which also houses the instrument's electronics). Japanese company Akai took over the instrument from Steiner and released sev...
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Zas
April 11, 2020, 1:24pm
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I can confirm this issue, I just tested with latest master, and yes, weirdly, it happens.
@outsidecontext : any idea about where it might come from, you hacked related code recently I think. If you don’t have time to look at it, just tell me, I’ll debug.
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