Hi Saul,

For a bar or two here and there, maybe experiment with scaling durations:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms#scaling-durations

Make the the first two quavers shorter and the next four longer. Work it
out so it all adds up.

Vaughan


On 22 October 2017 at 09:43, Saul Tobin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In my current project, I have a situation where the piano has fast
> arpeggios at the same time as the strings play a steady, slower rhythm (see
> attached screenshot). My feeling is that the best looking solution would be
> to temporarily sacrifice rhythmic alignment between the piano part and the
> rest of the staves, in order to maintain visually correct rhythmic spacing
> within the strings and the piano part independently. Is there are way to
> accomplish such a thing in Lilypond just for a measure or two? How would
> you deal with engraving this sort of passage?
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
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