Hello Giles; Thank you very much for the suggestion to use \partcombineApart and \partcombineAutomatic.
It works great! I really must have totally missed this in the documentation. I will also try using voices explicitly so increase my Lilypond knowledge/experience as that was what I was going to try next anyway. Thanks, Ken On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 4:23 PM Gilles Thibault <gille...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > Do I have to abandon partcombine and use the > > > > << {} \\ {} >> > > > > construct to obtain what I want? > > > > You can insert a \partcombineApart in the beginning of lh_one and > restore the default behaviour m25 with a \partcombineAutomatic, when > there are no more rests. > > lh_one = \relative f { > \global > \clef bass > \partcombineApart % <- here > r4 c'2 c4 | % m1 > ... > r4 bf2 bf4 | % m24 > \partcombineAutomatic % <- and here > c,4 g'2 bf4 | % m25 > ... > > -- > Gilles