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Zuill
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| Posted 3/9/2013 7:29 PM (GMT -6) |   | If you have chosen a named instrument using the change instrument feature in 2012, Jari has a plugin to put the name in. But if you have a drum staff with many instruments simultaneousy, forget it.
Zuill
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Zuill
"The Troll"
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| Posted 3/11/2013 2:11 PM (GMT -6) | | The thing about naming percussion instruments is that it is not so simple.
If you are talking about one instrument at a time, there are two places I put text. One, is right after the last instrument to tell that a change is coming up. I then put text where the first notes appear. There can be a short time, or a rather long time between these.
If you are talking about a mulit-percussion staff (bass, snare, cym, etc. sharing a staff), and no change of instrument per se has occured (regarding the Score Manager), you can label parts as thay come and go. Better yet to have different instruments assigned to differen staff positions. Even better, some instruments using different note-heads. One can indicate which is which with a legend, or just hope that, once an instrument and stafff position is introduced, the player remembers it the next time it occurs. I often use the full name the first time, and then an abbreviation subsequent times.
Zuill
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
Finale 2002b, 2003a, 2004b, 2005b, Win XP SP3, 2011b Win 7 64bit, 2012a Bought and Paid For (Hopefully soon 2012b with some of the MAJOR BUGS fixed--well, now with 2012b and some of the bugs are fixed) 2012c, with some bug fixes
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Motet
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| Posted 3/11/2013 3:33 PM (GMT -6) | | I put everything on one five-line staff, with a different line or space for each instrument, but I consider that only an aid, and use abbreviations like Cym., Tri., and Bass Dr. as labels. I typically label them at the start of a passage, but not again until things change or there's been a considerable amount of rests. I leave the indications about switching instruments for the player to work out and pencil in since I'm not a percussionist and they know more than I do (same with timpani tunings; the timpani gets its own staff, of course).
For thinks like woodwind doublings or mixed A and Bb clarinet, it seems like it would be a good feature for Finale to automatically put those in both at the point of switching and then when the new instrument first plays.
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