Slash repeats are never used with certain instruments and only rarely seen 
outside handwritten scores. Even Ravel's Bolero doesn't use them in the score, 
where the snare drum plays the same pair of bars for 65 pages (though it does 
obviously use them in the part).



On Dec 23, 2013, at 8:26 PM, Vaughan McAlley <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 24 December 2013 11:39, Mark Stephen Mrotek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mr. Kastrup,
> 
> Please help me with my understanding of this issue.
> Why is
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/short-repeats
> not an acceptable solution?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> I’ve seen pieces where a bar or two might be played 5 times, then the next 
> bar played 11 times etc. It would save a lot of space.
> 
> Vaughan
> 
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