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by dwlarson » Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:23 am
I was pulling my hair out trying to get an empty T/B staff hidden until I stumbled on this thread. After recreating the Choir as a "solo" instrument the staff hiding worked as dankreider described. But what a hassle (and how unintuitive). But if I wanted to do a divisi of one choral staff, I can only do that with a section instrument (as I understand it). Frustrating.
Curiously, when creating the extra Choir instrument, it was not named Choir2 [and the first one renamed Choir1] -- both were simply named "Choir".
I wish there was a comprehensive list of the scoring characteristics of solo and sectional players - "SOLO instruments can do ABC but cannot do XYZ." Same for SECTIONAL instruments. It would make it easier to choose which type of player to use for things like Choir, keyboard, brass quartet (played by single players), or small ensembles (which might have multiple players on single parts, but no divisi). Ultimately I'm sure this will become apparent when the ability to combine players/staves is possible, but it's a bit of a mystery right now.
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