2 pianos, 1 quartertone apart

Dorico
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I’m working on piano duets, where the 2nd piano is tuned one quartertone lower.
I’ve made a template that’s working, but would love to be able to toggle between written sound and concert pitch like for any transposing instrument.
Any thoughts?
Side question: I’d like to show the half-flat sign (reversed flat) instead of “-1/4” in the instrument label. Is it possible?

template_quartertonepianos.dorico (756,6 Ko)

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Something like that?

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I’ve used Bravura Text (you see all the settings) and the unicode is U+E280

I’d say the easy solution for having this template sound and transpose easily is to keep both piano written with the same system, and have the virtual instrument that plays the second one detuned a quarter tone. Fairly straightforward with many different libraries.

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