Piano Voices (and colours)

I have imported an XML file of Sax and piano and it has taken in all the notes pretty much as expected. I see that the parts (specifically the piano) have imported as up-stem voice 1 and down-stem voice 1 in 4 different colours depending upon whether the music is in the treble of bass staff.

I have no real problem with any of this, but I was wondering what best practise would be for voices in a piano part. Do users leave everything as one voice with either up or down stem (4 different colours) or would users split the piano into typically 4 separate voices? I appreciate that complex music would demand several voices, I am just thinking of fairly straight forward piano music.

This is not giving me any issues, I’m just curious as to best practise.

cheers

Peter

The main voices in the treble and bass staves of a piano part are by default different voices/colors; so if you have two voices on each staff, what you are seeing is likely standard.

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