Re: Need volta repeat brackets for a Trumpet+Piano "great big staff?"

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thank you, Abraham, for the feedback.

I feel comfortable now with the volta brackets as they are.

Secondly, I agree that it is overkill to to have the Voice specified
for the left hand when there is only one voice.

I'm fine-tuning as I go...

Thanks,
Ken

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 10:51 PM Abraham Lee <tisimst.lilypond@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey, Ken!
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 11:11 PM Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi;
>>
>>   I need volta repeat brackets for a Trumpet+Piano "great big staff?".
>>
>>   I see the section in the Notation Reference and a section in the
>> Snippet Reference regarding volte multi-staff, but I'm confused when I
>> already have a PianoStaff and I have a Trumpet above it.  Do I use a
>> GreatStaff surrounding a PianoStaff?
>>
>> I have attached the origin pdf, my Lilypond source and my engraving.
>>
>> Both pdf files have the same name, sorry about that.  The larger one
>> is the origin and the smaller one is my engraving.
>
>
> Admittedly, I'm not 100% certain I understand what question you're asking 
> since it appears you're asking two different ones:
>
> 1. Do you need volta brackets above the trumpet staff and also above the top 
> piano staff? Definitely not. This would be less common in only a three-staff 
> score. If there were more, where the bracket is less visible, then... maybe, 
> but even with four staves in a single system, I'm not sure I'd do more than 
> have the volta bracket above the top-most one.
>
> 2. Do you need to wrap all the staves in another GrandStaff (or similar)? 
> Again, no. Your source file is structured fine the way it is. I think the 
> only thing you didn't *need* to do is explicitly say \new Voice within each 
> of the PianoStaff's Staff. You could just say:
>
> \new PianoStaff \with { ... } <<
>   \new Staff <<
>     { \voiceOne \rh_one }
>     { \voiceTwo \rh_two }
>   >>
>   \new Staff <<
>     { \lh }  % I wouldn't explicitly use \voiceOne here at all since you 
> don't need the forced directionality it will cause
>   >>
> >>
>
> If those weren't what you're asking, then I apologize for not catching the 
> actual question(s).
>
> HTH,
> Abraham