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Node:Instrument names, Next:Transpose, Previous:Bar numbers, Up:Writing parts
Instrument names
You can specify an instrument name for a staff by setting
Staff.instrument and Staff.instr. This will print a string
before the start of the staff. For the first start, instrument is
used, for the next ones instr is used.
\property Staff.instrument = "ploink " { c''4 }
![[picture of music]](lily-310360064.png)
You can also use markup texts to construct more complicated instrument
names:
#(define text-flat
'((font-relative-size . -2 ) (music "accidentals--1")))
\score { \notes {
\property Staff.instrument = #`((kern . 0.5) (lines
"2 Clarinetti" (columns " (B" ,text-flat ")")))
c'' 4 }
}
![[picture of music]](lily-1393369183.png)
BUGS
When you put a name on a grand staff or piano staff the width of the brace is not taken into account. You must add extra spaces to the end of the name to avoid a collision.
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