I'd love to! But, the sample I showed above came from a published piano book, and the composer showed me a dozen other examples.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Darcy James Argue <djar...@earthlink.net>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
