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
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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.
>> 
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