Weird Multiple Instrument Bug?
Alright, so I'm working on a pretty big project and I've been using musescore for years and I have never ran into this problem until last night. My score contains a lot of instruments, but on what is currently the last page, I hide all staves other than the piano. The first 3 staves are fine, but the moment I start adding measures to get a new line, my piano changes to a flute? I've tried all that I know and have found nothing online. Please help if you can, I can't continue this score otherwise!
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When you hide empty staves, if all instruments are empty then only the first one is shown. If you move from the last visible piano measure to the next and start entering notes, the piano will become visible and the flute will disappear. Another way to work around this is to right click each piano staff, choose staff/part properties and set Hide when empty to Never and it will always Visible. You can always change this later if you want the piano hidden sometimes after the notes are entered.
In reply to When you hide empty staves,… by mike320
The flute is no longer appearing, but now I'm only getting the bass clef when trying to add another measure to my piano staff, even when I'm clicking the treble staff.
In reply to The flute is no longer… by Bryce Mcnair
@Bryce Mcnair...
How did you solve it?
Is (was?) there a flute in your attached score that I can't find?
In reply to When you hide empty staves,… by mike320
Nevermind, problem solved. Thanks for the help!
In reply to When you hide empty staves,… by mike320
@mike320... You wrote:
...the piano will become visible and the flute will disappear.
Are you talking about the score attached above by the OP?
I see no flute in the score at all - not even in the Instruments dialog (plus all are checked 'Visible').
In reply to @mike320... You wrote: … by Jm6stringer
There is no flute and I didn't mention a flute. I gave a generic answer that led him to understand what was happening. It seems what he really needed was to never hide both staves so they would remain visible.
In reply to There is no flute and I didn… by mike320
I could swear that I read the word "flute" in both yours and the OP's post.
I guess I'll have to try a different monitor ;-)
In reply to I could swear that I read… by Jm6stringer
Qué?
In reply to Qué? [inline:Screenshot… by yonah_ag
"I didn't say what I said" - Yogi Berra ;-)
To be honest, I didn't even look at the score until after the discussion of the flute. The OP described the problem and I explained the fix from his description. It worked with or without a flute in the score.
When you add enough measures and to get a new line, and there are no notes on any staff, MuseScore choose the top staff by default to display (it's that or display nothing, since all staves are empty). You can override this actually in Staff/Part Properties, select the staff you want to display when all are empty and check its "Do no hide if system is empty" box.
But I'm neither seeing nor hearing a flute; I simply see the bottom staff of the piano disappear since it's empty.