This has happened to me before when doing my part extraction using Special Part Extraction method (a real time-saver; for those not hip to it, I'll be happy to post the steps again).
Since I use the Staff tool to select the new staff and apply SPE, sometimes I forget to switch to Mass Mover before hitting the 4 key, which results in transposing the part to Tenor Sax instead of note spacing it. This still happens to me every other week or so, and I usually catch it right after I've done it. Brian Williams > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:52:29 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Finale Digest, Vol 37, Issue 35 > > 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.) _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
