Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 6:57 AM <msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 9 Jul 2023, Knute Snortum wrote:
>>
>> > I'm not sure exactly how one would deal with this problem, other than
>> with
>> > tags.  Maybe \parenthesize could not produce MIDI output?  Or is there a
>> way
>>
>> Is that a problem?  If these are two notes in different MIDI channels,
>> then the MIDI output is just reflecting what you wrote - two notes played
>> at once that happen to be the same pitch - and deleting one would be
>> incorrect.  If the MIDI output is really just a single "louder" note (what
>> does that mean - higher velocity?) then it implies some deliberate
>> detection of this case within LilyPond, which might reasonably be
>> adjustable.
>>
>
> In the MWE the instrument is a piano, so you wouldn't want the note to
> sound louder than the surrounding notes, because the doubled note is played
> by only one hand.

Frankly, a player who does not differentiate overlapping identical notes
in momentarily converging voices from single notes is not doing the
listener a favor.

-- 
David Kastrup

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