Hi Jay,

Ok Neil's second suggestion "voices" worked but I don't understand why it works
and why \\  should be avoided

Read the doc section on "Explicitly instantiating voices" — that will explain it.

(or why to avoid \\ when it's all over the documentation as the way to do polyphony )

That's a doc bug, as I've mentioned on this list many times… In fact, I consider it a Lilypond bug, in that the shorthand

  << a \\ b >>

should (IMO) automatically become

  << { \voiceOne a } \new Voice { \voiceTwo b } >> \oneVoice

rather than what it currently does.

Regards,
Kieren.

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