Percussion Kits in Instrument List token

Dorico
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I did a search for this topic but only came up with requests of a per-flow instrument list token, and removing instrument numbering from the list (I created that one). I thought it might be best to have a separate thread for this topic.

Currently, if I use the {@instrumentlist@} token and a player is holding a kit, it lists the instruments within the kit rather than the name of the kit. This is very often not standard.

Sure, if you have a “concert band-style” percussion layout, that has a kit with multiple instruments that multiple players might be reading from, this is great. But if you have a player holding a kit of two congas, it’s likely one would never want them listed separately as Conga 1 and Conga 2.

Personally, this token isn’t really useful at all unless I happen to have a percussionist who only holds single/separate instruments (and doesn’t have other players holding the same instrument.)

Am I missing something? Is there a way to display a kit name rather than it’s instruments?

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It will display the kit name if the “drum kit” option is set in the Edit Percussion Kit dialog. Perhaps you could set that without any ill effects?

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Hi Daniel,

I have found some strange behaviour: I tried, as you suggested, selecting the “Drum Kit” option but nothing happened at first.

I had to navigate from, and back to, that layout to see the effects. It seems that adding/removing any instrument in the project will also trigger the name to change.

Instrument List.dorico (1.2 MB)

Thanks for the tip, though. It seems to do the trick.