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'Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments'

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Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments - Mark Poston, 31 Oct 12:53PM

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments - Mark Poston, 31 Oct 01:05PM

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments - Laurence Payne, 31 Oct 01:55PM

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments - Doug Oberhamer, 03 Jul 08:51PM

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments - Robin Walker, 03 Jul 11:02PM

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments - Doug Oberhamer, 04 Jul 12:33AM

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments - Doug Oberhamer, 04 Jul 12:34AM

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments - Adrian Drover, 04 Jul 07:37AM

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments - Doug Oberhamer, 04 Jul 02:28PM

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments - Doug Oberhamer, 04 Jul 02:31PM

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments - Adrian Drover, 05 Jul 07:03AM

Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments
Posted by Mark Poston - 31 Oct 12:53PM

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Hi,
This may sound an obvious thing but I can't for the life of me figure it out.
All I want to do is change one instrument for another ... a viola for a clarinet.
I can find reference to changing an instrument within a part but this is not what I want ... I just want to change the whole instrument from one to the other.
Cheers
Mark

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments
Posted by Mark Poston - 31 Oct 01:05PM

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So, I selected all bars for the viola and then did a change instrument which seems to have done the job.
Mark

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments
Posted by Laurence Payne - 31 Oct 01:55PM

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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:05:50, "Mark Poston" <mark.poston@me.com>
wrote:

>So, I selected all bars for the viola and then did a change instrument which seems
>to have done the job.
>Mark

Or you could have created the clarinet as a new stave, triple-clicked
in the viola stave and pasted the whole lot into the clarinet.

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments
Posted by Doug Oberhamer - 03 Jul 08:51PM

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So I have a question regarding changing instruments. I have chart in which I am alternating between flute and clarinet - so the key signature should change when I change instruments. From D - to E. In the score it works perfectly - when I go to the new part - Whenever I change from flute to clarinet - it gives me the key signature of F#, C#. F#, C#, G# and D# - which is certainly problematic. It adds the correct key signature of E for the new clarinet part but will not remove the old key signature of D - Big issue. Any answers?

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments
Posted by Robin Walker - 03 Jul 11:02PM

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Please attach a Sibelius .sib score file which demonstrates the issue.

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Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments
Posted by Doug Oberhamer - 04 Jul 12:33AM

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Here is the clarinet part I was mentioning. You will see that on changed staves - both key signature is there.

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments
Posted by Doug Oberhamer - 04 Jul 12:34AM

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and the sib. file

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1. Breakthrough - NEW.sib (246K)

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments
Posted by Doug Oberhamer - 04 Jul 12:34AM

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clarinet part

Re: Sib. 6.1: Changing Instruments
Posted by Adrian Drover - 04 Jul 07:37AM (edited 04 Jul 07:56AM)

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OK, Doug, when you see a double key-sig, select the bar, goto Bars Properties and un-check Key-sig. This will leave you with just the Instrument Change which carries its own key-sig. This is only necessary when an instrument change happens at the start of a system.

May I also suggest that 2 bars rest is cutting it fine to change from clarinet to flute. Apart from the time it takes to put one instrument down and pick up the other, the two instruments require very different embouchures which need to be set. You will now probably tell me that you are the multi-instrumentalist in question and that it is easy ;-)