Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

[Aaron Sherber]

At 04:52 PM 11/06/02, Barbara Touburg wrote:
>But what was the solution?

Well, I found two solutions, although neither one turned out to be as good as I thought.

The first was the Change Noteheads plugin. I had hoped that by selecting a whole region and choosing change to 'Standard music notehead' I could get regular noteheads. But Finale considers that whatever notehead is in your percussion map is 'standard', so that didn't get me anywhere. But I can use this plugin to select a series of consecutive measures with whole notes and replace them with a custom notehead -- which of course is just the regular whole note notehead.

Then there's Mass Mover | Change | Noteheads, which essentially has the same problems. I can select a bunch of measures and change them to the whole note notehead, but only if the sequence of measures has nothing but whole notes.

So these are slightly faster then the note shape tool for several whole notes in a row. But I can't believe there isn't something better.

Does anyone know why percussion staves work this way? Is it usual to use these half note noteheads for whole notes? I don't think the timpani parts I've seen look like this.

Aaron.

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