Orchestral percussion in downstem voice (NP)

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Hello,
I would like to know if this setup is possible in Dorico:
I have an instrument with Piccolo sound (NotePerformer), and I would like to have the downstem voice with a percussion sound (ideally kind of a woodblock or similar). This is for a traditional instrument of my homeland in which the player holds a little recorder with one hand and a little drum with the other.

I have not been able to change the instrument sound to “Orchestral Percussion” in the NotePerformer options, for I think that this only works with Orch. Percussion instruments created thus. I tried to assign a Taiko sound but it is too low for what I need.

Anybody could give me a clue on how to achieve my purpose?
Thank you very much!

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Usually, pitched instruments are on 5-line-staff and unpitched are on 1-line staff, or grid, or 5-line-staff (provided they are in a kit).
It looks like you should fake this with a piccolo downstem voice (and suppressed playback in the properties — bottom panel) and a real unpitched player hidden but used for playback purpose only!
Fortunately, copying stuff from one staff to a specific voice in another staff is easy in Dorico — use copy and Paste special >paste into a voice> select the downstem voice)

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