Adding bars at beginning of piece changes clefs, pitches, etc.
I'm in the middle of writing a trio for clarinet, cello and piano, and I decided to add two extra introductory bars to it. This caused all kinds of mistakes to pop up in the cello part, which changes from bass to tenor clef -- clefs changed in places, pitches changed while clefs remained the same. I've corrected it by undoing to the point before I added the two extra bars. However, is there a way to add bars at the beginning of a piece without all those errors happening?
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I would try adding 3 bars after the first bar, making sure clefs, etc. are correct, then I would copy everything into the proper place and then remove bar one. I have not tried this today, but I seem to remember doing this previously.
Nothing like that should happen. What version of MuseScdore are you using, on wich OS. Can you attach the score?
Only think I've seen happening is when adding a measure before a pickup measure, that these may end up with the wrong tlenth (the one of the pickup measure)
Deleting the 1st bar gets rid of the initial time sig, some see this as a feature, in your case you might see it as a bug, when using Xavierjazz's workaround...
There are a few, probably related, issues that can show up when inserting measures before the first in version 1.2 see also #4893: [1.2 pre-release 2] Non-removable courtesy clef appears after insert measure before first one.
Doesn't come up often for me, but when the need arises, I usually take the workaround of adding the new measures *after* the first then copying the contents of the first measure to its new location.