Can I make an entire voice or voices or staff non-printing in Windows version 9.6.3?

Please see my reply to fnbecker.

It's a cumbersome work-around, but it gave me the results I wanted.

Hello fnbecker,

Following your suggestion, I tried something similar and it worked well.

American Accordionist Association(AAA) notation is built around the idea that Stradella bass is a feature of most accordions sold in the US. In Stradella bass, there are buttons that sound individual bass notes, and other buttons that sound ready-made chords. There are major chords, minor chords, dominant seventh chords and diminished seventh chords. In reality, there is only one octave for the bass side of the instrument, but sometimes notation extends through two or more octaves. Also, the dominant and diminished seventh chords have the fifth missing to make the mechanism simpler and lighter, but the effect is the same as the full chord.

Now, to make reading bass clef for players of accordions with the Stradella bass system easy to learn, AAA notation was developed. In this system.

1. Treble clef is written as it might be for piano. The variations come in the bass clef.

2. In the bass clef, notes below the thrid line, and notes on the third line with stems going up, indicate a single bass note. If the bass note is to be played in the counterbass row, the note has an underscore below the staff. If there is a melody in the bass that extends above the third line (it won't sound that way but might be wrtitten that way) the letters "B. S." (for bass solo) are placed between the staves.

3. In the bass clef, notes above the third line and on the third line with stems going down indicate the root of a ready-made chord. (The other notes of the chord are not spelled out, as they might be in similar European accordion notation systems.) Above the bass staff and over these notes, are the symbols M for major, m for minor, 7 for dominant sefenth and d for diminished seventh.

My goal was to produce this notation, but to also to have MuseScore generate a midi file with the chords sounding normally. To do this in MuseScore, I used the piano template, but with accordion as the instrument. I then added two more accordion instruments, but deleted the treble staf from each of those two. The first system contained the melody in treble clef. It contained single bass notes and the root notes of the chords with the symbols above them in text, as described below. Since I know how these chords are constructed, I used the second bass staff for the "middle" notes of each chord and the thrd staff for the "top" notes of each chord. Then I saved the midi file. Nextg, I created one part with the first system, saved a .PDF of it, and created parts for the two additional bass staves just for fun. I also saved a LilyPond file of the first part, and had it generate a .PDF, too.

Actually, the midi file had to be edited because accordion bass and chords are supposed to sound a lot shorter than they are written, so I popped the file into Sonar, which gave me four tracks -- one for treble, and one for each of the bass staves. I conbined the three bass-staff tracks, reduced the note durations by 50%, played with the volume and pan controls a little bit, and came out with a file that sounds about the way an accordionist would play the music.

Thanks for your idea, and consider me a happy camper!

Alan

Please see my reply to fnbecker.

Thanks.

Alan