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#### 8.4.5 Special noteheads

Different noteheads are used by various instruments for various meanings – crosses are used for “parlato” with vocalists, stopped notes on guitar; diamonds are used for harmonics on string instruments, etc. There is a shorthand (`\harmonic`) for diamond shapes; the other notehead styles are produced by tweaking the property

>          c4 d
>          \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross
>          e f
>          \revert NoteHead #'style
>          e d <c f\harmonic> <d a'\harmonic>

To see all notehead styles, please see `input/regression/note-head-style.ly`.

##### See also

Program reference: NoteHead.

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