make notes with ledger lines spaced like notes on staff

• Apr 7, 2025 - 18:22

I'm a non-musician and brand new to MuseScore (4). I want to show all 88 piano key notes on a grand staff. Notes with ledger lilnes are spaced wider apart than notes on the staffs (staves?). How can I fix this? I managed to change the space between notes, but it is not consitent. I changed the length of the ledger lines, but it only affected some notes and they are still wider apart than the notes on a staff. I'm attempting to attach an image below.

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It's not 88 notes. That would include all the black notes and you have not.

That said, I can't make it do what your image did without explicitly changing properties of the notes. Perhaps, try selecting that whole measure and pressing Ctrl+R to reset all elements to default settings.

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If that doesn't work, attach the score (.MSCZ file) rather than an image. Also identify your computer's operating system and version, and MuseScore's version. You can get all three simultaneously by clicking on Help / About MuseScore from the main menu. Then click the copy button (two pieces of paper) next to the "Revision" number. Paste that into your post.

In reply to by juliesumwalt

Yeah, all 88 would include all the black keys, you have only included the white keys.

When I change the view from Continuous view (horizontal) to either Page view or Continuous view (vertical), it displays the notes evenly spaced.

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I note that you missed the F in the first (bottom) space of the treble clef.

I also note that you have all the notes except for the top middle C in "Staff 2" (the bass clef staff), with the upper notes moved to the treble clef using "cross-staff notation".

Hmm, that's interesting. When I "inserted" the missing F note, it was also spaced oddly. Exactly how did you enter these notes???

Here's how I did it:

grand staff 2.mscz

I used the Insert note input mode and entered all the notes to the bottom middle C in the bass clef. Then I inserted the D and up in the treble clef. Then I switched back to the Default (step time) note input mode to enter the C in the treble clef. Then I deleted extra rests and made all the required rests invisible.

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