How to share percussion between players

Dorico
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Hi all.
Writing for orchestra, in Setup I am configuring which instruments are assigned to each of the 4 percussion players. I need 2 of them to play the Tam Tam at different times. How do I make it that a new Tam Tam does not get created when I attempt to add this instrument to the second player? i.e. they are both assigned to the same instrument?

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It isn’t currently possible to share Instruments between Players. You would need to add a new Tam-tam to the second Player.

After this, you will also need to adjust the staff label of one of them because Dorico will automatically add instrument numbers to identical instruments. I do this by putting a space before the second instruments name so that they appear identical but aren’t.

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Thanks for that Daniel. Much appreciated.

Ross