Tell the composer he's wrong! I have never seen that U-shaped symbol in any piano music. It's always a square bracket. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places, but...
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 24 Feb 2010, at 3:23 PM, Ryan wrote: > I tried using that but the composer wants me to use the other symbol. > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM, David W. Fenton > <lists.fin...@dfenton.com>wrote: > >> On 24 Feb 2010 at 10:40, Ryan wrote: >> >>> Does Finale have this "U"-shaped symbol in the lower staff? It's used to >>> tell the pianist to play the note with the other hand. >>> >>> http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n130/rwb76/Thumb_symbol.jpg >>> >>> I haven't found it in the built-in articulation libraries. I haven't >>> started looking through other fonts like Toccata, yet, but I hope someone >>> knows where to find it and can help me save some time! >> >> I would use a bracket, possibly with R.H. annotation, as on p. 11 of >> this score (m. 204, 205): >> >> http://dfenton.com/Carols/RoseOrgan.pdf >> >> That seems much more standard notation, and that's speaking as a >> lifelong keyboard player. >> >> -- >> David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com >> David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
