Re: accordion, single note for chords, midi

[Simon Albrecht]

On 13.04.2016 22:51, Gianmaria Lari wrote:
> On the accordion the recommended notation to indicate a chord is 
> writing in the bass staff a *single* note between d' and d and writing 
> on top of them 'M' for major, 'm' for minor etc.
>
> Doing this with lilypond is easy but the generated midi file will 
> contain single notes and not chords.
>
> How can I make lilypond display single note in the score but generate 
> chords in the midi file?

The most ‘simple’, although certainly not most convenient way would be 
spelling out different versions of the music and using different score 
blocks for layout and midi (the latter being recommendable for many cases).

Yours, Simon