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Transposing instruments

Any staff can be defined to have any instrument transposition; for example, a trumpet staff can be notated up a whole step, yet Finale will still play the music at concert pitch. While you’re working on the document, you can be looking at the instrumental staves either in their transposed or concert-pitch forms. For steps to create two transpositions in the same staff, such as a saxophone switching to flute for a few bars, see To define a staff with a double transposition.

 

Defining a staff transposition

Transposing a staff chromatically

Displaying a score in concert pitch (or in transposed form)

Adding mid-score instrument changes

 

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