Removing Time Signature entirely (not just transparent)

[ctesta]

Hello Everyone,

I am working on some highly customized notation for proportionally notated
phase music. I need all of the beats on the page to take up the same
amount of space so that the rhythms can be clearly seen. What I need to do
now is to take away the time signature in the first line entirely (not
just make it transparent). I need to take it away entirely because if I
make it transparent it still takes up space and makes the first line have
a smaller proportional notation than the rest of the lines.

See attached image.

I tried adding the following in the context field but that works for the
bar numbers but not the time signature.

\layout {
        \context {
        \Score
        \remove "Bar_number_engraver"
        \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
}

Another issue is that I need the time signature there so that I can
control how many beats are on each line but I don't want it to show up at
all.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Carl

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