can one create a new clef to add to the palettes of clefs?

• Mar 3, 2022 - 15:56

I want to move F base clef up one note. Why? So I can play a cello part on a viola without having
to learn yet another clef.

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• Mar 3, 2022 - 16:45

Look under the clefs section of the main Palette--for me it's right there, if not for you, then click on "more" at the bottom.
Changing the clef should transpose the notes automatically, as well.
Those Bach suites work great on the viola, don't they?

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• Mar 3, 2022 - 18:06

Thank you for your reply. I need to move the F base clef up one note, so that the F is the space
below the top staff line (and I need the notes to move as well). Thank about it, at that point
a C on the A string of the cello will be the same place as a C in C alto clef, so you can finger
the music like you are playing C alto clef, al beit you will be playing an octave higher than the cello.
I would have to import the pdf of the cello part. That position of the F base clef is not there.

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• Mar 3, 2022 - 20:29

For some reason, I was envisioning setting the F-clef on the top line--I believe it's called the "sub-bass clef" or something like that--which would make it equivalent to the treble clef, just transposed down, well, two octaves. But that's pretty dumb, I guess. (I had a text-book on score-reading that advocated learning to read transposing instruments that way--Um . . .)

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