"The times field tells Sinfonia how many times to perform an action. After Sinfonia has fulfilled its obligation and performed the action the specified number of times, it will ignore the metaevent on subsequent passes. The most common way to use this field is with repeat (i.e. repeat measures 10-20 three times). But there are other interesting ways to use it. For example, if measures 10-20 are repeated three times, and within this repeated section there are commands to mute the flute two times at measure 19 and unmute the flute at measure 20, Sinfonia would play the flute at measure 19 on the third pass after skipping it the first two times. If the times number is 0 or is left blank, Sinfonia will will perform the action every time it is encountered."