Grand Staff
How do you get a grand staff to appear on the score? I only see options for only treble and bass and such.
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How do you get a grand staff to appear on the score? I only see options for only treble and bass and such.
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If you want an instrument than normally has a grand staff, add that instrument. If you want to change an existing instrument to a grand staff, select staff 1 for that instrument and click Add staff. It will default to a bass clef. You can then extend the barlines to the second staff and insert a bracket.
In reply to If you want an instrument… by mike320
How do I put the instrument name in front of the bracket (Piano, Organ etc.) ? Right now the instrument name is not showing.
In reply to How do I put the instrument… by Geoffrey T Falk
By default, according to standard convention, the instrument is hidden if there is more than one instrument in the score. If you want to see an instrument name even though there is only a single instrument, disable the corresponding option in Format / Style / Score.
If you mean you are creating a new score, just select the Grand Staff template - the third one on the list in the wizard when you do File / New. If you have an existing score and you wish to add a piano, use Edit / Instruments and select piano under Keyboard. If you have an existing score that already has notation on a single staff and no you wish yo change it into a grand staff, just add a bass clef add the bracket and extend the barlines as suggested above.
But note, if you're in the habit of starting from the default empty score, that's not such a good idea - it's there to play around with, but normally you should be creating scores using File / New so you can set them up properly to begin with.