Too many fermatas

For the last two bars of this piece, I want to do a pyramid that ends – after the final voice has entered – with all the voice holding on a fermata. You can see from the screen shot that the soprano and mezzo fermatas are correct, but also generate two additional fermatas at the start of the bar. If I try to delete those two ‘extra’ fermatas, I get a correct result in the upper two voices, but loose all of the fermatas in the lower 4 voices. I’m doing all of the in Write mode, but I couldn’t seem to delete the specific fermatas in Engrave mode either



. Is there a way to get the result I want?

What you want to do is select the last note that gets a fermata, and then the others should be added at the correct positions.

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I’m not sure what the soprano and mezzo staves are but have you tried removing all the fermatas and then adding one to the last crotchet (second stave of image)?

I started writing my reply first.

Perfect!! Thank you very much…:slight_smile:

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If you are not tied to the current notation, I would add another measure, tie everything to a whole note in that measure, and put the fermatas on that final, tied-to note in each part.

Ah, a bit more elegant solution (and, I suspect, more correct – if only I had gone to music school.)
Seriously, thanks to both of you for your solutions. This forum is really very special.