Re: how to stop an accidental from being printed?

[Mats Bengtsson]

See the section on "Accidentals".

  /Mats

Ted Walther wrote:
> I was entering Erik Satie's piece "Vexations" which is heavy on
> accidentals.  In front of the sharps and flats, lilypond puts a (*)
> symbol, where * represents the "natural" accidental.  This gets
> annoying.  Is there a way to turn it off?  I just want the accidentals
> themselves to be shown;  if you go from bes to bis, I'll assume that it
> is relative to b; no need to put b-natural symbol in front of the sharp
> symbol.
>
> Also, in Sacred Harp music, the sixth note of the minor scale is played
> sharp, but this should not show up in the printed music.  Is there a way
> to hide the accidental and stop it from being printed on the sixth note?
>
> Ted

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