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3.1.85 MelodyItem

An auxiliary grob to help alter the stem directions of middle notes on a staff so that they follow the melody.

MelodyItem objects are created by the following engraver(s): Melody_engraver.

Standard settings:

neutral-direction (direction):

-1

Which direction to take in the center of the staff.

This object supports the following interface(s): grob-interface, item-interface and melody-spanner-interface.

This object is of class Item (characterized by item-interface).