Removing number from separate snare drum and crash cymbal parts in the score

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I’ve searched the help as well as this forum and can’t find the answer.
The situation – creating a concert band score where I want a drum set (I’m using the basic set) so that cymbals/snaredrum/bassdrum will show on one staff for times when a band only has one percussionist and I also want a separate staff for each for those times when a band has more percussionists and will have one on each part.
The separate snare drum staff is labeled “Snare Drum 2” even though it’s the only snare drum part in the score and the Crash Cymbal staff is labeled “Crash Cymbals 2” even though it’s the only crash cymbal staff in the score. The Bass Drum staff is labeled “Bass Drum” with no number which has me puzzled since the snare and cymbals got the number 2.

I would love to have all three show in the score with no number.

I have renamed the player in Setup Mode and when I click on the three dots and select “edit name” there is no number showing and there is no option to choose whether to show a number or not.

When I look at the individual parts in Engrave mode, the Player Name as I have edited it is showing just fine without number for both Snare Drum and Crash Cymbal, so my question really is only how do I get those staves to NOT show a number in the label in the score?

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

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A drum set staff in Dorico is technically a collection of separate unpitched instruments, including a snare drum and a crash cymbal. Since you could at any moment decide to split the drum kit back out into its constituent instruments, they are full-fledged instruments and therefore get auto-numbered with the rest of them. Provided you don’t need player groups for anything else, you could put the Drum Set in its own group, which bypasses the auto-numbering. Other than that, you could also (subtly) rename the snare and cymbal in the drum set, for example by adding a space in front of the name, because the auto-numbering breaks if the names aren’t precisely identical.

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