yes, just like so, and I have a picture to prove it. I have restarted Dorico. Any ideas? It worked before… 
Chords can appear over any instrument. They will automatically be added to that instrument if you select something on it and crate a chord symbol (shift-Q).
To remove them from your Piano. Right-click the (blue) Piano Player tab and change the chord symbol settings. Note: In this sub-menu Hide for all instruments means Hide for all instruments held by this player.
thank you, Janus, in this case I do NOT want them over the piano, but they showed up anyway. I did figure it out though, something got funky with the dorico file itself, I opened a new document from the same template and it works as advertised. Now I’ll have to copy/paste my notes into the new one
No you don’t. Just change the setting in Setup (as I explained) and those Chord symbols will disappear.
you’re right, I didn’t know that… I was used to go into the Edit Instrument Definition dialog. Thank you! I wonder what the settings are in my template… but I have to go now, I’ll report later
so we have two dialogs:
left click on the three dots bring this out, and in my case I toggle “rhythm instrument” in the Edit Instrument Definition dialog … but only because, in the dialog that pops up by RIGHT-clicking the player box, has “Show for Rhythm Section Instruments” selected under Chord Symbols.
BUT… as soon as I create a Chord Symbol Region (because I do want to see chords at times in that part), the selection under Chord Symbols changes to “Show in Chord Symbols and Slash Region”…
Now that I know where it is and how to use it, I’ll leave the Edit instrument definition dialog alone (after all, piano IS a rhythm instrument…) and have “Show Chord Symbols and Slash Regions” checked, so I can have chords where I want them.
but, but, but… talk about learning curve…
Now that I understand how different chord choices relate with the “rhythm instrument” check box in Edit Instrument Definition dialog, may I ask, what is the check box above, “vocal staff” relate to?
Vocal staves put dynamics above by default (to allow for lyrics below).
yes they do!.. thank you