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Piano staves

Piano music is always typeset in two staves connected by a brace. Printing such a staff is done similar to the polyphonic example in Combining music into compound expressions:

      << \new Staff { ... }
        \new Staff { ... }
      >>
     
but now this entire expression must be interpreted as a PianoStaff:
      \new PianoStaff << \new Staff ... >>
     

Here is a full-fledged example:

[picture of music]

More information on formatting piano music is in Piano music.


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