Re: Accidental repeated with ottava

[Knute Snortum]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 10:48 AM Mark Knoop <mark@opus11.net> wrote:
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>
> At 10:38 on 10 Feb 2023, Knute Snortum wrote:
> > I have run into something in LilyPond that's annoying -- it probably
> > doesn't rise to the level of bug.  When you have two notes in
> > different octaves but "on the same level" because of an ottava, the
> > accidental is repeated.  This makes sense logically because they are
> > not the same note, but it doesn't look right to me, at least.  Maybe
> > it's the intended behavior?
>
> FWIW, Gould writes:
>
> "Repeat an accidental if sounding at a different octave, even when the
> same pitch is used with an octave sign."

Okay, so it sounds like it's a desired behavior.  Thanks for looking
that up for me.