This looks to me like bagpipe music - all the gracenotes are what you
would find in any bagpipe piece.
Lilypond has a set of definitions for the specific bagpipe gracenotes,
and will draw them appropriately - see below and
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/bagpipes.html
On 15/08/2025 6:56, Kevin Cole wrote:
Not just the note heads, but the stems and possibly the beams?
I've got a score with more grace notes than actual notes and every
measure looks something like the attached image. In LllyPond, the
grace notes appear to be so large that it's hard to see the forest for
the trees.
I've experimented unsuccessfully with startGraceMusic and
stopGraceMusic, probably because I'm missing some brace or bracket or
context or placing it somewhere them shouldn't be. (When I told it to
change the NoteHead.font-size it seemed to work but when I added in
Stem.length and Beam.thickness it messed up everything.) Is there
anything that treats grace notes as grace notes and just scales them
wholesale?
A very stripped down look at general template that I want to work the
solution into is:
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\version "2.24.2"
\language "english"
melody = \relative c'' {
c4 ... a4 % lots of notes and in this case, lots of grace notes
}
\score {
\new Voice = "mel" \melody
\layout {
\autoBeamOff
indent = 0\mm
\context {
\Staff
\RemoveAllEmptyStaves
}
}
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
