#### 3.15.2 Ancient accidentals

Use the `style` property of grob Accidental to select ancient accidentals. Supported styles are `mensural`, `vaticana`, `hufnagel` and `medicaea`.

As shown, not all accidentals are supported by each style. When trying to access an unsupported accidental, LilyPond will switch to a different style, as demonstrated in input/test/ancient-accidentals.ly.

Similarly to local accidentals, the style of the key signature can be controlled by the `style` property of the KeySignature grob.

##### See also

In this manual: Pitches, Chromatic alterations and Accidentals give a general introduction into the use of accidentals. Key signature gives a general introduction into the use of key signatures.

Program reference: KeySignature.

Examples: input/test/ancient-accidentals.ly.

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