Up-down bow

Revision as of 08:57, 28 November 2025 by Rudi Guggt (talk | contribs) (tweak not necessary / credits)

Combining up and down bow over a single note can be done with a macro.

\version "2.24"


% credits: Tina Petzel
% https://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg162425.html

updownbow =
  %-\tweak parent-alignment-X #CENTER
  ^\markup \concat {
    \musicglyph #"scripts.upbow"
    \hspace #0.3 % tweak space to your liking
    \musicglyph #"scripts.downbow"
  }

{
  c''1^\upbow
  c''1^\downbow
  c''1^\updownbow
}