My language for instrument names is set to Italian in Preferences. But I noticed that the alto horn/tenor horn instrument (part of the saxhorn family; should translate to “Flicorno contralto” in Italian) is missing when adding a new instrument.
If I use English instrument names, I get both “Alto Horn” and “Tenor Horn” in the Brass family as expected. With Italian instrument names, the closest I can get is “Corno (alto)”, which corresponds to high-transposing horns, analogous to “Horn (alto)”. But there is no “Flicorno contralto”:
Since I’ve already had to tweak the instrument XML files for other reasons, I decided to check them again for this. In instruments.xml, I found that the relevant instrument names are instrumentname.brass.horn.tenor.eflat and instrumentname.brass.horn.tenor.eflat.alias.alto-horn. Curiously, the standard Italian (singular) translation in instrumentnames_it.xml is “Corno (alto)” in each case (the plural is “Flicorni contralto”—as expected, more or less). Even more curiously, I still could not find the relevant instrument under the “Corno (alto)” group (see above screenshot). Replacing the errant “Corno (alto)” (six occurrences) in the latter file with “Flicorno contralto” got the alto horn/tenor horn back into the instrument list and in its expected position.
This is by far the biggest issue I noticed with the Italian instrument names, but since I was reviewing the XML file, anyway, I noticed two others. The “Flicorno baritono” in the above list refers not to the Baritone Horn/Baritone, as expected, but rather to the Baritone Bugle (instrumentname.brass.bugle.baritone.g in the XML files). To get the real Baritone Horn/Baritone (instrumentname.brass.horn.baritone.bflat or instrumentname.brass.horn.baritone.bflat.alias.baritone), I have to select “Corno baritono” instead.
Finally, a much more mundane issue, but one that I can’t ignore. When I select a piccolo, I get “Ottavino” instead of the more expected, and much more common, “Flauto piccolo”. I understand that the former is also a name for piccolo in Italian, but the latter should exist as at least an alias (just like Horn vs. French Horn in English, or even English Horn vs. Cor Anglais).
