Default Tenor Clef

• Feb 27, 2023 - 03:34

Is it possible to change a setting in the Musecore program so that the tenor staff is by default in bass clef instead the octave lower treble clef? I change the clef pretty much for every score. The vast majority of my scores use bass clef for tenor, since it’s on the same staff as bass. It’s easy to change for each score, but if it’s possible to change the default setting, I’d do that.

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• Feb 28, 2023 - 19:04

That didn’t quite work. The template preserved the instruments and the altered sounds (choir aahs changed to piano in a SATB score), but it did not preserve the bass clef. The template comes from a score that had bass clef for tenor. The new score using that template has treble clef on tenor.

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• Mar 1, 2023 - 09:31

Because you may have changes the clef, but not the default clef, which is what I did:

      <Staff id="3">
        <StaffType group="pitched">
          <name>stdNormal</name>
          </StaffType>
        <defaultClef>F</defaultClef>   <<<<<<<<<< this is what I changed
        </Staff>
      <trackName>Tenor</trackName>
      <Instrument id="tenor">
        <longName>Tenor</longName>
        <shortName>T.</shortName>
        <trackName>Tenor</trackName>
        <minPitchP>48</minPitchP>
        <maxPitchP>72</maxPitchP>
        <minPitchA>48</minPitchA>
        <maxPitchA>69</maxPitchA>
        <instrumentId>voice.tenor</instrumentId>
        <clef>F</clef>       <<<<<<<<<<<< this is what you changed, presumably
 

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• Mar 1, 2023 - 11:51

Indeed I did not. Which brings me back to my original question, can changes be made to the defaults themselves? Or is what you changed their part of the template? Getting into the code is something I’m not comfortable doing without guidance. I don’t even know where the code you listed is kept.

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