Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

[Aaron Sherber]

At 06:15 AM 11/07/02, David H. Bailey wrote:
>What I have found in working with percussion parts is to NOT change the
>default shapes which appear in the dialog where we create the percussion
>map. The only time I change anything is when I want something
>specifically different such as an X notehead. Otherwise I leave them as
>is. When I do that, all notes appear as they should (and do in all the
>other parts.) When I change anything I run into the problem that Aaron has.

But I didn't change the noteheads. The percussion map dialog displays two noteheads for each instrument: a closed notehead and an open notehead. By default, most instruments have the quarter note notehead as the closed notehead and the half note notehead as the open notehead. This means that the quarter note notehead is used (with the appropriate stem) for all quarters, eighths, sixteenths, etc. -- which is just fine. But it also means that the half note notehead is used with a stem for half notes and by itself for whole notes. This is not fine, as this notehead is smaller and shaded the other way from the usual whole note notehead.

The problem is that there seems to be no way of specifying separate noteheads for half notes and whole notes in percussion staves.

Aaron.

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