Hi Ryan, Wow. What publishers (out of curiosity)?
Again, I've never seen this symbol and I think it looks horrifically ugly. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 24 Feb 2010, at 3:55 PM, Ryan wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
