Remove all staves in multi-staff instruments

There are only two staves on the Piano II staves and I want to remove both of them after 2 beats. I tried to use the “Remove Staff” option but Dorico stopped me from doing this. The screenshot should make it clear (Piano II, Percussion I and II have the same problem too)


Is there a way to do this or am I better off using blank boxes to cover it up?

It looks like you want to work with a cutaway score. If you search the forum you’ll find several topics/threads on this that have been added to within the past couple of months.

Here’s a great link from the middle of one:

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Of course I had to try … :grin:

More effort than one would wish …

(Yes I know … I was lazy with the cluster)

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Ooo I didn’t know the name. Thanks! This is exactly what I’m looking for!

Loving it! The more I know about Dorico, the more I believe it has the capability to produce contemporary scores

May I look at your files?

Here … with some reservations, because it is not really consistent and more a way of trying out different things. I guess I would not really recommend this, until Dorico gets native support. But the discussion mentioned above in this thread has good info.

sort of cutout.dorico (467.8 KB)

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