Re: Turning off selected spanbars in a Grandstaff

[Thomas Morley]

Am Di., 17. März 2020 um 12:54 Uhr schrieb Andrew Bernard
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>
> Please refer to the attached score. Is it possible to turn of just the
> span bars between the top two systems and the bottom two? We want to
> keep the system start span bar as this is a string quartet, but in
> this polymetric section the span bars give a misleading impression of
> synchrony between the top two parts and the bottom two. [Before people
> start commenting this is musical nonsense you find such polymeter in
> composers like Elliot Carter.]
>
> Andrew

Hi Andrew,

iiuc, how about:

\new GrandStaff
  <<
    \new Staff \with { \override BarLine.allow-span-bar = ##f }
      { r1 r r r }
    \new Staff
      { r1 r r r }
    \new Staff \with { \override BarLine.allow-span-bar = ##f }
      { r1 r r r }
    \new Staff
      { r1 r r r }
  >>

Cheers,
  Harm