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Mixing harmonics and regular notes

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Revision as of 18:56, 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)

In passages where there are harmonics in one voice and regular notes in the other, the note head 'style override only applies to the voice in which it is declared.

\version "2.24"

%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=539

upper = \relative c' {
  \voiceOne
  \clef "treble_8"
  \override NoteHead.style = #'harmonic
  g8 a b c b4 d
  <g b>1
}

lower = \relative c {
  \voiceTwo
  \clef "treble_8"
  e2 d
  g,1
}

\score {
  \new Staff = "guitar" <<
    \context Voice = "upper" { \upper }
    \context Voice = "lower" { \lower }
  >>
  \layout { }
}