About default Treble Clef for Greek Bouzouki
Hi. The reason for this topic is a notification i want to express (to the developers of MuseScore i suppose) about the correct way to write music for the Greek Bouzouki instrument. Inside the MuseScore when i start a new score for Bouzouki the program use as the default key the Treble clef 8va bassa. This is wrong!!! The right key for Bouzouki is the standard Treble clef just like the violin does!!!! I am from Greece, i am a music teacher, teaching the Greek 4-strings Bouzouki, and i am very sure about that. I hope to see this change in the future when there will be an update version of the software!!! Please feel free to contact me if you need any further information. Thanks for your understanding.
Best regards
Dimitris Malinis, Musician
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But it is then octave transposing (sounding an octave lower than written), isn't it?
Same for the 3-course Bouzouki?
In reply to But it is then Octave… by Jojo-Schmitz
No this is not a transposition! That's the regular, the normal, the correct writing!!! Most people confused it with the classical guitar way...this is not the same!! The middle C (C4) on piano is in the second string (A) in third fret in Bouzouki. the C5 is in the first string (D) in the 10th fret, the C6 is in the 22th fret. The highest note of Bouzouki is in the 27th fret the note F (F6 in piano) and we write it over the third line above the treble staff. The lowest note is the fourth string open, note C (the C3 on piano) written under the fourth line under the treble staff. The 3-course Bouzouki have one note less...the D3 is the lowest. , written on the fourth line under the treble stuff. The full note range of Greek Bouzouki is C3 to F6 in piano. I hope this was helpful for you and for the MuseScore developers also!
In reply to No this is not a… by dim.mal
Of course it is. Working on a fix... best would be to enter this into the issue tracker (now that we know there indeed is a bug)
Edit 1:
See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/6101 for the proposed code change
Edit 2:
And it got merged, so will be in 3.5
Edit 3:
Thanks for #305705: About default Treble Clef for Greek Bouzouki
In reply to Of course it is. by Jojo-Schmitz
I sent an email to "support@musescore.zendesk.com" 9 days ago and they told me today to post it here...so i did that..!!! This is so confusing... Thank you!!!
In reply to I sent an email to "support… by dim.mal
Support for the MuseScote program is done here in the forum, and here only, so they were right in sending you here. Issues, oncve confirmed(aleas better in the forum first, to clear up missunderstandings), are here on musescore.org's issue tracker and there only.
See also https://musescore.org/en/faq#faq-20657
In reply to Of course it is. by Jojo-Schmitz
What did happened here? Did you fix it already or what? Are you a github developer? Apologized about my poor English..!!!
In reply to What did happened here? Did… by dim.mal
I'm one of the MuseScore code contributors. I sent a PR (Pull Request, proposed code change) and one of the MuseScore GitHub admins merged it.
So it'll be in a development build now and also later in 3.5 Beta, once that happens
And no, it doesn't always work that fast ;-)
In reply to I'm one of the MuseScore… by Jojo-Schmitz
Wow i am so impressed...so lucky!!!! I will be looking forward to see that clef change in the next version!!! Thank you very much!!! If i find any other issue or maybe think about a new suggestion for the program i 'm gonna tell you!!! By the way i am a Linux Mint user and that's the reason i start using MuseScore...When i was in Windows i used Finale instead for writing music for a very long time...maybe 12-13 years!! I just love MuseScore now, i am using it every day. Keep on the good work!!!