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These snippets illustrate the Notation Reference, section Wind instruments.
It is possible to indicate special articulation techniques such as flute's "tongue slap", by replacing the note head with the appropriate glyph.
slap = #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?) #{ \override NoteHead #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup #:musicglyph "scripts.sforzato"))) \override NoteHead #'extra-offset = #'(0.1 . 0.0) $music \revert NoteHead #'stencil \revert NoteHead #'extra-offset #}) \relative c' { c4 \slap c d r \slap { g a } b r }