22 frets on banjos
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
5-string and plectrum banjos have 22 frets, but the MuseScore tablature for 5-string banjos only goes up to 19.
I have an arrangement for Wheel Hoss that needs to go up to the 20th and 21st frets but cannot do it.
Comments
MuseScore doesn't have a 5-string Banjo at all as far as I can see.
So you must have added that 5th string. Workaround: Rightclick into the statt > staff properties > string data and there add those frets
To add it to MuseScore: what would the tuning be?
See also #275757: Banjo 5th string problem, and proposed fix, I guess this should be dealt with there.
Right-click on the staff -> Staff Properties -> "Edit String Data" -> Edit "Number of frets" to 22 -> Ok
So, it's not an issue, but "by design". The default - the most common - is 19 frets ( but you can edit the number as wished.)
In reply to So, it's not an issue, but… by cadiz1
"MuseScore doesn't have a 5-string Banjo at all as far as I can see."
??
I found none. There are 3 different banjos, all 4 strings. No 5-string Tablature either.
? Don't understand. 5-string banjo is the "standard", the most common banjo. And Tab 5-str. is here, as always.
Hmm, not sure what I've been looking at then, now I see 5 strings indeed, before I saw only 4?
Ah, I looked at the Tenor Banjo and the Irish Tenor Banjo, both 4 strings.
And as per Wikipedia a Plectrum Banjo also has only 4 strings, but indeed 22 frets, vs. 17 or 19 for the Tenor Banjo
So I guess we could add a Plectrum Banjo
In reply to Right-click on the staff ->… by cadiz1
Perfect. The workaround posted by cadiz works perfectly. Didn't know about this feature. Thanks!!
It's a not a workaround. It's precisely a feature for edit the number of frets. There is litteraly thousands of plucked instruments with various tunings, number of frets etc.
If they all had to be installed in MuseScore, the space would soon run out.
In reply to So, it's not an issue, but… by cadiz1
Actually, most 5-string banjos are 22 fret, a few are 24. Old-time style 5-string banjos (with a scooped neck) are usually 17. I'm not sure I've ever seem a 19-fret 5-string. The default should be changed to 22.