Instrumentalist without an instrument

Hello,

I would like to separate instruments that I had merged. The score is now called “instrumentalist without instrument”. I would like to give it back its original name. Editing the instrument name is correct, but it does not appear on the score. How can I fix this?
Thank you for your advice.

Did you just edited the name of the empty handed player?
Or did you really gave the player an instrument? Without an instrument, no music will be showed

If so:

In setup mode, select the player so it turns light blue (1).

Then tick the flow(s) (2) and layout(3) you want the player to be visible on

And be sure the instrument has some music, or empty staves are not set to be hidden

I had merged the harpsichord and piano parts into a single part for both instruments, as the same musician will be playing both keyboards. Now the conductor is asking me to redo two separate scores. On the piano part separated from the harpsichord, I see ‘instrumentalist without instrument’. I would like only the name ‘piano’ at the top of the part.

Select the (white) Piano tab and drag it onto the “Instrumentalist without instrument” (Empty handed Player). The Player name will change to Piano.

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I have done this several times, which seems logical. The name of the instrument is then “instrumentalist without an instrument”. See the screenshot

That is the Layout Name, which you can change on the Right Side of Setup.
(Usually layouts will automatically take the name of the Players/Instruments on the Left. I don’t know why this did not happen for you)