On Aug 21, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Sorry, a funny aside here about an imagined corruption problem I just
had today.
All my extracted parts for a project today were transposed up a major
9th, even the concert pitch ones. This was something I had never seen
before. I checked the score, and EVERY staff was called Tenor
Saxophone in Bb! I checked the staff attributes, everything was
normal. I went back and tried to edit the staff name and
transposition, but all was as it should be. When I tried to CHANGE a
transposition, it entered properly, but the staff was still called
Tenor Sax and was up a 9th! I was getting that crazy feeling in the
pit of my stomach at the thought of starting all over again, then I
noticed the pale blue lines over the staves when I selected the Staff
Tool.
Got it yet?
It took me a minute still with my mouth hanging open and the light
slowly going on. Yes, Martha, I had selected All, then hit 4, meaning
to respace, just before extracting parts. The Staff Tool had been
selected instead of the Mass Edit Tool, and I had just switched tools
and hit 4 again, not thinking that I had even done anything in the
Staff Tool by hitting 4. But 4 is the Staff Metatool for applying
Tenor Sax transposition to a staff, and that is what I had done, to
my entire score.
It might have been tragic, but no, it was just stupid.
Christopher
(certain that his nightmares tonight will involve enormous saxophone
choirs populated only with tenor saxes.)
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