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Non-stretchable gracenote groups

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Revision as of 18:54, 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)

For some instruments such as bagpipes it is desirable to use groups of several gracenotes that do not stretch with the normal music. This can be achieved by setting the GraceSpacing spacing-increment to zero or to a small value.

\version "2.24"

%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=740

%here starts the snippet:

\relative c' {
  c4 c_"Normally" \grace { g'32[ c, g' c, g'] } c,4 c |
  c4 c c c | \break
  c4 c_"With tweak applied"
  \override Score.GraceSpacing.spacing-increment = #0
  \grace { g'32[ c, g' c, g'] } c,4 c |
  c4 c c c
}

\layout {
  \context {
    \Score
    \omit BarNumber
  }
}

\paper { tagline = ##f }