When you override something in the layout-block you do so for every instance of Staff. If you want to make only the third staff disappear you have to remove the override from the layout-block and apply only to that staff like this:
leftTwo = \relative c { \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t s1*8 | %First two lines c1 | c | c | c | } HTH, Tao -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Hiding-one-empty-staff-of-three-staff-piano-score-but-not-two-tp143427p143429.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user