Add temple blocks instrument

All that needs to be done is for Instruments.xml to be edited to include the new preset.

That's how temple blocks are usually categorised - 5 notes doesn' t really make it pitched in the same way as a marimba, glockenspiel etc.

@ Michael: True, but timpani are classed in pitched percussion and--depending on the period--there are usually no more than 2, 3, or 5 pitches written. There seems to be a lapse in the logic here. What do you think based on that? Should MuseScore attempt to 'fix' that, or would doing so confuse temple-block players? ;o)

While any given score might typically use only a handful of timpani pitches, the instrument is capable of producing all 12 tones of the chromatic scale and a set of them can be tuned to produce whichever of pitches you like. More to the point, music for timpani is typically written on a standard staff with absolute pitches. Music for temple blocks is, I assume, typically written on a percussion pitch with no indication of absolute pitch.

@Marc--Fair enough; but given that temple blocks exist in several pitches--even if they are not re-tunable as timpani are--how then should those specific pitches be notated on an unpitched, single-line percussion staff? I don't suppose using a staff text to specify which temple block to strike for any particular note would the right way to do that...?

Any percussionists here who could chime in on this question?

You wouldn't use a single-line staff for a set oif five temple blocks. Music for these would be notated the same as for other "quasi-pitched" drums: the staff lines are used to indicate the relative pitches. That is, top staff line indicates highest pitch, next line indicates next highest, etc. That's also how it works for congas, bongos, tom-toms, etc. Depending on how many lines are on your staff and how many other drums you are trying to represent on the same staff, you might possibly use both lines and spaces, but the concept is the same: highest pitch on top,. lowest pitch on bottom, no worries about what the *aqctual* pitch is. At most, if it happens to be especially relevant, there might be a notation at the front of the score giving a suggested tuning for things like congas that are tunable to some extent.

Hopefully the attached MSCX file will show you how it's done - open it it in a text editor.

Basically you lie to the system :)

Works in 2.0.3 anyway.

Do I gather you can't get it to work?

Maybe I need to consider redefining the temple blocks as a drumset, only problem being that I'm not sure there are any free spaces.

Will look into it.

See my post in that thread......
https://musescore.org/en/node/122811#comment-556021

I shall be changing the temple blocks to a drumset when I get a chunk of free time.

Won't be for a couple of weeks though.

Any Progress on this?

Bump.

Bump, still waiting.

Currently working on a piece that needs 5 temple block pitches and the temple block option still only has 2 sounds.

Hi. I just stumbled across these temple blocks, and they sound great! how to I use them in a new or existing score?