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Specifying instrument changes as markups

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Revision as of 18:53, 16 November 2025 by Jean Abou Samra (talk | contribs) (Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series)

This is just a small useful macro when you need to specify multiple instrument changes on a same staff. Just write \inst "Name before the note the markup should be attached to.

\version "2.24"

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%LSR modified by P.P.Schneider on Feb.2014

inst =
#(define-music-function (string) (string?)
  #{ <>^\markup \bold \box #string #})

\relative c' { c \inst "Horn" d e f }