On 24 Feb 2010 at 13:08, Ryan wrote: > I don't recall the names of the publishers, but I did notice that they > were all fairly recent editions. Mostly song collections and method book > type stuff for young/beginning pianists.
Perhaps they were engraved by substandard or inexperienced engravers? Frankly, I think it's a *terrible* symbol as it's so easily confusable with other things, and to me, not immediately obvious what it's for. Were I in your position, I'd try to convince the composer that it's a mistake to use a symble that clearly follows no established convention for indicating the same thing. -- 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