add instrument middle of piece.
i know that there is solution for hidin empty staff. But problem is when compose for orchestra there have to be div. for example 2 flute same staff flute I and flute II is another staff. it's mean 3 staff for flutes. if go on like this all for orchestra i have to open 36 staff. after i write all then hide staff. it's very hard to write. may be after section break we can make new insturmantion. also we need that between movments.
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What you are asking for can be easily done using different voices on the same stave.
If you have the two instruments on different parts (using your example a 1st flute and a 2nd flute), you will have something that looks like what is below.
Instead, if you go to the top of the screen and find the numbers 1-4, you can select to have a different voice (the default is voice 1).
If you select 2, you can begin to input a second line of music onto the same stave.
Which will give you something like this - which could be the first and second flute parts together on one stave.
You can do this with up to the 4 possible voices:
Although, with four voices though I tend to not do much more than 3 as shown as it does begin to get a bit crowded and it may be easier to split this into two staves with two.
Next time you have a request like this - you may want to consult the MuseScore handbook first, or post into the MuseScore Discussion Facebook group if you are a user.
Hope this helps,
James.
If you wish to stop having the (for example) second flute playing, you can simply not put on a second voice, instead of having to worry about hiding any staves - instead they will share the same stave the whole way through.
I wouldn't be in a hurry to close this. Sure, there are ways of getting the job done, but it's still a worthy feature request to consider some day.
If we don't close it, the feature request would need to be more elaborate. As far as I can tell, James' solution solved the issue.