I don’t know if this will help, but another way to notate that is simply a
hyphen between the two fingerings, if you have space to have that. It might
be easier to notate?

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:57 PM Thomas Morley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Am Do., 21. Okt. 2021 um 18:07 Uhr schrieb Knute Snortum <
> [email protected]>:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > In piano music, there's a technique for holding down a key with one
> > finger, then switching to another.  I know how this looks in music
> > notation (see attached) but I don't know how to engrave it with
> > LilyPond.  I've searched the docs, the LSR, and the internet for the
> > answer, but I don't know any technical term for this (is there one?)
> > so the results were less than helpful.
> >
> > How is this done in LilyPond?  I'm assuming one uses markup with
> > \finger, but I can't find a way to make the "slur" on top of the
> > numbers.  (I've seen this notated with the slur under the numbers
> > too.)
> >
> > --
> > Knute Snortum
>
> How about:
>
> {
>   c''4^\tweak text \markup \tie \concat { \finger "4" \finger "1" } -1
>   c''4_\tweak text \markup \tie \concat { \finger "4" \finger "1" } -1
> }
>
> Cheers,
>   Harm
>
>

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