Hiding empty percussion staves when using multiple players

Hi everyone,

I’m working on an orchestral score with two percussion players, each assigned multiple instruments. The problem is that all instruments assigned to a player are shown throughout the entire score, even when the player is only playing one of them at a given moment.

Ideally I’d like only the instruments that are actually being played to be visible at any point. Is there a way to hide individual percussion instruments within a player’s setup when they are not in use?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Is Instrument Changes allowed in Layout Options > Players?

Yeah instrument Changes are allowed

Are you using Galley View or Page View? Galley will always show all instruments, but Page will only show the active instrument.

I am using Page View. Everything was fine until I deleted the lower staff of the Marimba

How did you do that?
(It may be simpler to change the instrument to a single staff marimba?)

It’s a known limitation:

Instead, you can change your marimba to a one-staff marimba, as @Janus is suggesting. Or you can also restore the removed staff and edit the instrument definition like this:

Thank you, I wasn’t aware that this was possible!

Great, that’s exacly the solution!