Re: instrumentSwitch and addInstrumentDefinition use

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi all,

> I certainly understand that as being the most common need.

And apparently the one we officially recommend in the documentation.  =)

> However I am not a composer. I am in the position of either adapting an 
> existing book
> for younger players who may not be able to play all the instruments in a book
> or fixing my own book so the page turns are better maybe because of cuts.
> Sometimes I am just creating parts and maybe scores from existing hard to 
> read parts.
> I usually want to just get music that already exists into the computer. Even 
> though
> my transposition skills are fine it's safer to enter the music directly as 
> written.

Fair point(s)!

> I would like any new features for instrument switching to suit my need to 
> not always enter the notes in concert pitch.  I don't really think that be a 
> problem.

No, it shouldn’t be.

Ultimately, I suggest that we design the basic mechanism and functions for 
concert-pitch entry, and then add syntactic sugar to allow easy written-pitch 
entry.

Thanks!
Kieren.
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