You only start one slur, so you only get one.  If you try extra notes, you have 
to ensure that the voices are such that they will combine.  However, you could 
in this case specify a tie to the note that's the same, a slur to the note 
below, and a phrasing slur to the bottom note, so your starting note has these 
piled up after it like so: fs4~(\( .  But the result is clashing slurs, so 
you'll need to use the \shape tweak to adjust the position of at least one of 
them.


But to me this seems a very odd way to write this...


Paul



 From:   Kevin Cole <[email protected]> 
 To:   lilypond-user mailinglist <[email protected]> 
 Sent:   02/06/2022 21:56 
 Subject:   Three slurs from a single voice to three voices? 

Hi, 
 
The hand-written score I'm looking at shows an F# with three slurs 
coming off of it going to each of the three notes in the following 
measure. I tried the following but it only shows one slur. What did I 
miss? 
 
%%%%%%%% 
\version "2.22.1" 
\language "english" 
 
\new Staff { 
  \relative c' { 
    \time 4/4 
    \key d \major 
    d2 r4 fs4(            | 
    << 
      \voiceOne { 
        fs4)( g) g4 fs4   | 
        fs4( b4) b2       | 
      } 
      \new Voice 
      \voiceTwo { 
        d,2) cs4 cs4      | 
        d2 d2             | 
      } 
      \new Voice 
      \voiceThree { 
        b2) as4 as4       | 
        b2 b2             | 
      } 
    >> 
    \oneVoice 
  } 
} 
%%%%%%%% 
 
 (I also tried adding the starting F# to each of the three voices but 
it made a two-headed F#. I didn't go so far as to add the F# to the 
third voice, since it was messing up when I added it to the second, 
and it seemed like there was probably a better solution than fighting 
with the direction of the head for the single note, since it's one 
more thing I don't know how to do, and seemed -- to me -- 
counter-intuitive as an approach.) 
 

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