Add single-staff marimba to Instruments.xml
The marimbas in the standard instruments.xml are a grand staff marimba and a single-staff bass marimba. However, a single-staff marimba line is what is usually used for ensemble literature, rather than a grand staff (which is more common in solo literature). We should have a second marimba option in instruments.xml for "Marimba (single-staff)" and rename the current marimba entry to "Marimba (grand staff)".
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You could simply remove the 2nd staff when you're adding the instrument in the instruments dialog?
That's the workflow I've been using.
In my experience, there have been many more people who use a single-staff marimba part much more frequently than the grand staff, so it would save them clicks to have a single-staff option.
I made some tweaks to Instruments.xml that address issue #111331, and I added a single-staff option for the marimba as well. Let me know if I should re-arrange which genres the instruments go in.
If this looks good, I'll go submit a pull request on GitHub.
Make it "Grand Staff" and "Single Staff" in the tracknames, and add the corresponding lines to instrumentsxml.h. See attached.
I'd have a PR ready, just let me know whether you prefer to do it yourself
See also #111331: Incorrect pitched percussion instrument default ranges in Instruments.xml
If you've got everything queued in GitHub, you can go ahead and put in the PR.
see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2612
I've sent in pull request #2613
It looks like we tried to do this at the same time. That would explain why I had some conflicted files. I'll cancel my PR, since yours hit first.
OK, sorry about that, I took your #6 to be your OK to my PR
Fixed in branch master, commit 39ed0ec470
fix #111431 and fix #111311: some additions/corrections to instruments.xml
* Add single-staff marimba and contrabass marimba to instruments.xml
* Fix come incorrect pitched percussion instruments' default ranges
in instruments.xml
* Fix Traverso short name (ommision from 10bca19f)
* Add channels to Harp for staccato and flageoletti, see #18779 and
https://musescore.org/de/node/110481#comment-499521 ff.
* Fix apparent typos for octave-mandolin and contrabasses
Fixed in branch master, commit cdce271095
Merge pull request #2612 from Jojo-Schmitz/marimba
fix #111431 and fix #111311: some additions/corrections to instruments.xml
Fixed in branch 2.0.4, commit 4f73232694
fix #111431 and fix #111311: some additions/corrections to instruments.xml
* Add single-staff marimba and contrabass marimba to instruments.xml
* Fix come incorrect pitched percussion instruments' default ranges
in instruments.xml
* Fix Traverso short name (ommision from 10bca19f)
* Add channels to Harp for staccato and flageoletti, see #18779 and
https://musescore.org/de/node/110481#comment-499521 ff.
* Fix apparent typos for octave-mandolin and contrabasses
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.