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Playback of Handbells LV should stop (damp) at next LV or R
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Description
Your idea
The "LV" articulation in the Handbells palette should stop sustaining when another "LV" or an "R" (or a "TD", "BD", or "RT") is encountered. Each subsequent LV should function like a pedal up-down on a piano when changing chords.
Problem to be solved
During playback, the "LV" articulation in the Handbells palette causes all notes to sustain, and the Damp symbol causes the sustain to stop. However, an "R" or another "LV" does not currently end the sustain; the sound just continues forever.
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Additional context
In handbell notation, "LV" (laissez vibrer / let vibrate) indicates that all notes from that point forward should be held and not damped until 1) a damp symbol, 2) an "R" (ring), indicating normal ringing (i.e. not LV), or 3) another "LV", which ends the previous LV section and starts a new one.
So, the following notation is equivalent:
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