Add posibility of turn a stacked note pair into a double note
In case this is an already implemented feature, I am very sorry for adding this request. Else, I want to beg for it.
In some (rare?) cases, you want to express that the same note is played with two strings. This is done using a double note. I would like a way to do this in MuseScore. The most natural way I can come up with is to add a way of flipping a note horizontally. Using such a feature, you can have stacked notes, and flip one of them to achieve a double note.
I attach a made up PNG file showing a double G note.
(This is not very uncommon in commercial balalaika sheet music.)
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| double_note.png | 12.7 KB |
Comments
You can kind of do this already - shift-X is the command to mirror a note head (flip ita to the wrong side of the stem). So enter a second note - say, a third away - flip it the wrong side of the stem, then arrow it up or dow to the correct pitch. A bit indirect, and if you want then to have different accidentals, there is no way I know to that aside from using teickery with multiple voices or use of symbols as accidentals.
I close the feature request. Reopen if needed.
Thank you! I didn't know about shift+x (is there a menu option for this, or do you have to know about this hotkey?). Although you have to do some tricks to accomplish this, I find it good enough, as it is quite rarely needed even in balalaika sheets.
Sorry for opening this as a ticket.
Shift-X doesn't mirror the note head, just flip. Mirror would look much better, like the png the OP attached
I noted that difference. However, I must have a peek into a commercial sheet to see how it "should" look. Or where can we read about the all mighty standard?
There is no one standard, although Elaine Gould's "Behind Bars" is the current favorite reference for many. I've never seen the "mirrored" look shown in the original PNG; the way MuseScore does it is the way I always see it.
In that case, I find the issue resolved. Of course, it could be more intuitive ways of doing it, but for now I close this.