Harp and Percussion orchestral grouping

Dorico
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I’ve just created a new orchestral score from scratch.
Upon adding the timpani, percussion, and harp, and choosing the “Orchestral” grouping in the dropdown menu in Setup Mode, the harp is placed above the percussion, just after the brasses.
Finding it suspicious, I checked Gould, page 509, where the harp is placed below the percussion instruments. So this is the first issue I would like to be checked.

The second is that, once I manually move the harp below the percussion, both timpani and the percussion kit get grouped in the same bracket of brass.
Is this a known issue? Of course, I can change the grouping manually but, should I? Is there any other thing to consider?

Thank you!

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I think you need to use a harp variant and change the instrument family to keyboard.
(There was a thread on this some months back)

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