In an orchestral score, instrument names are printed at the left side of the staves.
This can be achieved by setting
Staff.instrument
and
Staff.instr
. This will print a string before
the start of the staff. For the first staff, instrument
is
used, for the following ones, instr
is used.
\set Staff.instrument = "Ploink " \set Staff.instr = "Plk " c1 \break c''
You can also use markup texts to construct more complicated instrument names, for example
\set Staff.instrument = \markup { \column { "Clarinetti" \line { "in B" \smaller \flat } } } c''1
For longer instrument names, it may be useful to increase the
indent
setting in the \layout
block.
Program reference: InstrumentName.
When you put a name on a grand staff or piano staff, the width of the brace is not taken into account. You must add extra spaces to the end of the name to avoid a collision.
This page is for LilyPond-2.6.3 (stable-branch).