I have an obscure piano fingering issue that I’d like to resolve. This is what I would like to see (ignore the 8th-notes overlapping the flats for the moment).
But when I try to adjust the vertical spacing, no matter how I try to work around it, this is what always comes up:
I could live with it, but throughout the rest of the piece, I’ve always used the bracketed double-1, and I want to be consistent. Any ideas?
Use system text?
(By trial and error) You need to remove the fingering from the lower note of the chord, leaving it on the top note and the lower voice (!)
Thanks, Janus, but what you suggested didn’t work. I tried again, and this is what did work, eventually: (Upstemmed voice is two notes; downstepped one.) If I selected only the upper of the two unstemmed notes (1,1), it only registered one “1”. If I selected both unstemmed notes and inserted “1,1” it did work, but not at first. “Trial and error”, as you say.
This is driving me nuts! I thought I’d resolved the problem, had the look I wanted, and boom!, I reopen the document, and the correction is lost. Here’s what happened: I undid the voice column in Engrave Mode and reinserted “1,1” on the upstemmed notes. “1[” appears! (above the staff, but that’s ok), then redid the voice column adjustment. As soon as I move to Print Mode, the correction is lost. (Print Mode hates me anyway.) Any observations?
So, Andro, you were right. System text. Thanks.
Do you mean Staff Text, not System Text? Surely you just want it to show on this staff, not on others…?
It won’t make much difference if there are no other staves, but if you try to do it in another piece with other staves…
Hey Joe, as an observation (and my 2⍧ may be worthless!), I would have left the stem on the upper voice in its normal position on the right side of the note. Also, if you have not corrected it already, I don’t think you wanted that eighth note to have the rhythm augmentation dot like the upper voice (unless this is a combined dotted quarter and eighth note – in which case you probably should have adjacent notes.)
— Jim
Unless this is designed for students, or there are other factors at play in the rest of the piece, you might just omit this particular fingering. Players with small-medium hands will use this fingering as the only one possible. And the cardinal rule for fingering is to leave out any that’s unnecessary. (Except for educational music.) Large hands might play 12, and if comfortable, it might give them better tonal control.
I would put the Ab/Gb in the RH and avoid the issue altogether.
