Getting rid of initial brace on piano score

[Peter Toye]

I want to get rid of the brace on the first line of a piano score, but keep it for the rest of the score.

I tried the snippet below, but this gets rid of it for all the lines, in spite of the \once command. If I uncomment the lines in each staff and comment in the command in the PianoStaff I get the same effect.

Is there any way I can do this?

The rationale is that I need to paste this into existing printed music, and it makes the cutting easier.


\version "2.16.2"

global = {
  \key c \major
  \time 4/4
}
\language "english"
\layout {
indent=9.5\cm
}

right = \relative c'' {
  \global
  \once \override Staff.Clef #'stencil = ##f
  \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
%  \once \override Score.SystemStartBrace #'stencil = ##f
  c1 c1 c1 \break c1 c1
  
  
}

left = \relative c' {
  \global
  \once \override Staff.Clef #'stencil = ##f
  \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
  %\once \override Score.SystemStartBrace #'stencil = ##f

c1 c1 c1 c1 c1
 
}

\score {
  
  \new PianoStaff 
  <<
    \once \override Score.SystemStartBrace #'stencil = ##f
    \new Staff = "right" \right
    \new Staff = "left" { \clef bass \left }
  >>
}

 
Regards,

Peter
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