Bracketing for multiple players including a multi-staff instruments

I have to realise this kind of instrumentation: three players (in real life!) playing saxophone, piano+singing, and percussion+singing.


My initial attempt at using three players failed because I need all staves to be shown at all times and the staff label for the voice needs to be there constantly at every system.
I then created two extra players for the voice and gotten here:

Now, I would need to add a brace around voice & piano but it seems that a multi-staff instrument doesn’t allow multiple braces? If I put a single big brace before and then try to add a second one only for the piano (or any other bracket) simply fails. Having a single brace or bracket for the three staves is not what I’m looking for.

Any idea on how to work around this? I would also be curious to know why the piano doesn’t accept an extra brace outside.
Thanks!

I managed to do this, I am not sure if it is what you are looking for. But I had to cheat quite a bit: my piano is actually a section player (a cello, in this case) with divisi… This allows both the brace between the two staves and the bracket over all three.

I guess there are simpler solutions!

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I’m not sure there are, and still, I would need two braces … mmm …
In any case neither playback nor the instrument used would be a problem, so that’s a start for sure! Thank you for now!

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I was first thinking about a group, but it seems that you can’t edit a group’s bracket in order to replace it by a brace…