Changing an instrument's tuning midway?
I'm trying to write some tab, and it requires that one of the strings on my instrument be tuned to a different note halfway through the piece. How do I accomplish that when I write it?
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Use an Instrument change. And that change instrument, which could be the saame as before, then should be able to have a different tuning
In reply to Use an Instrument change… by Jojo-Schmitz
You can't access the staff/part properties after an instrument change so you can't retune a string mid way through a score. You will have to use multiple instruments. After the notes are all entered you can use Format->Style... and check Hide Empty staves and also uncheck the option below that that says something like Don't hide staves in first system.
In reply to You can't access the staff… by mike320
So if I can hide the empty staves, is there a way to combine the two instruments into one staff while keeping the changed tuning?
In reply to So if I can hide the empty… by Banjo Boy
It will give the appearance of a staff change if you put the system breaks in the correct spot. There is or was a way to make them look like a single staff in the middle of a system using frames, but I'm not sure how to do that.
In reply to So if I can hide the empty… by Banjo Boy
a system break would, but also a horizontal frame mid-staff (which you could then set to a width of 0)
In reply to You can't access the staff… by mike320
Probably possible anyway, by hand-editing the mscx file
In reply to Probably possible anyway, by… by Jojo-Schmitz
Those sound like great ideas... I just don't know how to do either of those things. I think I understand what you're saying, I just don't know how to execute them.
In reply to Those sound like great ideas… by Banjo Boy
That manual editing seems not to work...