> > I haven't looked at the details of the MIDI format for 
> > several years but from a quick look at the descriptions
> > at www.wotsit.org, it seems that you can only have 16
> > different channels in a MIDI file and each channel
> > corresponds to one instrument (and one Lilypond Staff
> > context). At the moment you have 18 different instruments.
> 
> Not true, lily uses a track per staff,IIRC.

Yes, but as you can see in the source code of
Performance::output(...) and
Staff_performer::stop_translation_timestep ()
you also get a new channel for every staff.

   /Mats

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