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Starting with 2007, clef change works differently:
To insert a mid-measure clef change
Click the Clef Tool .
Highlight a measure region that begins where you would like to place the clef change.
Double-click the highlighted region (or press Enter). The Change Clef dialog box appears.
Choose the new clef and click OK. You return to the document with the clef—which now has a handle—at the beginning of the staff. Drag the clef’s handle right or left to position it as desired. The notes before and after it will be renotated automatically.It doesn’t work as well, at leas in my experience, as the old way.
Look in the index for mid-measure clef changes (see under Clef Changes)–it’s there in any version of full Finale, and I think it should be there in PrintMusic, but I’m not perfectly sure. I know it’s not in notepad.
Also look for “cross-staff” to see if there’s a way to do the cross staff notes.
If printmusic does layers, you might also be able to enter them as a separate layer on the same staff, but it would be fiddly to get things adjusted properly doing it that way.
Oops, left out a step. Cross Staff is under the Note Mover tool. You’ll probably also need to use the Reverse Stem tool for some notes and the Beam Angle tool to make it look nice.
Yes, you can do this, but exactly how depends on which version of Finale you have. If you go into the Help files and search for mid-measure clef change it will tell you exactly what to do.
You can also use cross staff notes to avoid ledger lines. You enter the notes with as many ledger lines as necessary, then go to Special Tools>Cross Staff tool, click the measure and then the handles that appear on the notes and drag them to the other staff.
It was pretty common during the depression, I believe, also. It’s not something you’d want to do on a general basis, since the patched string never sounds as good as a new string will.
I’ve used it myself when stringing Pleyel chromatics for decorative purposes (pedal harp strings aren’t long enough), but as long as I can afford a new string, I’d always opt for that for that instead for an instrument that’s going to be played.
As long as it isn’t false, go ahead and use it, but it will probably break much sooner than it would otherwise. It’s pretty important to try very hard not to crimp strings when putting them on. A sharp bend like that makes a weak spot where it happened.
No, it is part of the basic font pack that installs with finale. If for some reason it didn’t install for you (do you have any of the Engraver fonts?), then it’s in the font pack in the downloads on finalemusic.com.
Dusty sells their own strings, which are, as far as I know the only strings they want you to use. It’s far more likely that the tuning pins were not backed out enough to allow for the inward motion of tightening the new strings, thus bringing the string out much closer to the lever by the time the string was pulled up enough.
