Bizet: Carmen Prelude

You mean the red ones in the Trumpet part?
They are too low to be played by a regular trumpet.

No the selected horn notes don’t show in page view

…really confused now. You can see they automatically trigger the instrument change “To Hn in D”. Here, forcing them to appear using manual staff visibility:


…notice they don’t condense neither…

The G♭ (F♯ in the autograph) is in fact playable.

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It gets weirder here in v5.1.81 (presumably no issue in v6), if in Layout options>Vertical spacing I switch staff visibility hide empty staves to ‘never’, things become more inconsistent e.g. on last page Horn staves do appear on last page as A and E condensed staves, despite having changed instruments to F and D so no notes displaying where they occur in bar 147. Then if condensing switched off, horn staves disappear altogether. It’s wonderfully unpredictable if you’re into that sort of thing…