Re: Note grace at the begining of a piano piece

[Graham Percival]

On 10-Apr-06, at 11:00 AM, Tomas Valusek wrote:

> I'm learning to use LilyPond and as a pianist I use template 
> introduced in section 3.2.4 of the User Manual. A piece I'm now trying 
> to copy begins with note grace in right hand. Section 6.4.7 says: "A 
> score that starts with a \grace section needs an explicit \new Voice 
> declaration, otherwise the main note and the grace note end up on 
> different staves." Since I'm not (yet) familiar with the LilyPond 
> concept of staves and voices, I'm not sure what to write to the 
> beginning of the \upper variable in template 3.2.4. Can you help me? 
> Many thanks and sorry for bothering you with quite a number of my 
> posts.

Did you get a problem?  I'm having a hard time duplicating this bug; 
the warning in 6.4.7 might be out of date.

In any case, to modify 3.2.4 to use explicit voices, try this:

  upper = \new Voice { \relative c'' {
        \clef treble
        \key c \major
        \time 4/4
\grace{a16 b}
        a b c d
    }
     }

Cheers,
- Graham