musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Implement playback for polychords
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Since Aug 29, 2025.
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Description
Polychords (introduced in 4.6) are defined in chord symbols from an engraving perspective, but don't have playback support yet.
They're written by typing the pipe character | between two chords, e.g. C|G.
Right now, only the first chord in the sequence is played back, e.g. for C|G only C will play back.
We should play back both chords. How playback is voiced needs to be determined, but likely the chord that appears on the bottom of the stacked polychord (G in C|G) should make up the lower notes and any chords on top should be voiced higher.
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