Playback quietens despite no dynamics

• Oct 5, 2021 - 16:15

I've just uploaded Bach Up To Me by Fats Waller to musescore.com
https://musescore.com/score/7047370

Both in Musescore 3.6.2 and on musescore.com there is an apparent shift in dynamics between measures 80 and 81 on the 4th page.
The playback becomes less forte to my ears despite no visible dynamics being applied to measure 81
The "Velocity Type" and "Velocity" properties of all the notes are Offset and 0 respectively for the whole piece.
Adding a forte symbol or even fortissimo to bar 81 does not counter the problem.
The issue disappears if I select all dynamics and remove them, but then reoccurs if I reinstate the dynamics manually one by one.

Is there something like a hidden hairpin at play? On scanning the piece the accents were all interpreted as hairpins!

The sheet music was created from a scanned PDF via https://musescore.com/import
I did it one PDF page at a time and this is the raw 4th page:
Bach-Up-to-Me_Page_4.mscz

Using:
OS: KDE Flatpak runtime, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.6.2, revision: github-musescore-musescore-

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• Oct 5, 2021 - 16:26
  1. Switch to Continuous View (if not, the next step will likely lead to a crash)
  2. Look at the start of m81; there is a decrescendo overlapping the accent mark
  3. Select it and delete it.

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• Oct 5, 2021 - 16:56

@jeetee That's it! Thanks for the quick response.
But why is it not visible? If I colour it red while in Continuous View then return to Page View it remains invisible.

I see in the raw scanned file Bach-Up-to-Me_Page_4.mscz file that this hairpin was already hidden but not marked to be not visible. When I tidied up the score and highlighted all the hairpins with Select All Similar Elements this one hairpin did not delete as it was not selected despite its existence.

I've now managed to find a few more of these hidden hairpins so have removed them too.

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• May 16, 2023 - 14:57

I know it's an old thread but I am so exuberant at finding this tip I had to post.
Thank you, I have used continuous view to find 2 otherwise invisible hairpins that were almost muting my playback. This was some kind of corruption in a conversion to mscz from pdf.
There were no other elements anywhere near the offending items to make them invisible in normal view
What concerns me is if there could be other corruptions that aren't even visible in continuous view?

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