The current piece I’m working on is for wind band, but the opening has the trumpets playing tuned wine glasses and a large part of the band singing at the beginning. The work starts with a pickup note and using the trumpets as an example, I created a note in Galley View in the trumpet part and then hid it. That fixed my score label issue, but left a hole where the rest was supposed to be. I recalled that I had done this in an earlier piece by creating a “chord symbol region” but now that workaround isn’t working. Any suggestions?
Forgive me but what is the issue?
Would you be able to attach a screenshot of the current situation?
And you have “Glass” as a separate instrument within the Trumpet Player, or are you just using Default text?
If you do have it as a separate Instrument, what happens if you change the order of the two instruments inside the Player?
I’m just struggling to understand the need to hide the upbeat.
Everyone in the band has a pickup note; there has to be a rest for the group.
Trying to determine what kind of embouchure one uses to play a tuned wine glass. 
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My guess is that the embouchure shape would need to be fluid, depending on how many glasses you need to use…
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These answers aren’t very helpful.
To insert a rest in the 1-beat pickup at the very start, try the following.
Activate the caret (double-click or shift-N) in that player, start a new voice (shift-V), then press O (letter O, not zero), 6 , comma ( , ), Y.
O 6 , Y
You will probably need to move the rest into position using Rest pos. in Properties > Notes and rests.
Use Force Duration to add a rest in another voice. Reposition in Engrave Mode if necessary.
Have you tried setting the staff name to the Player name rather than the Instrument name? I believe this situation is exactly what that layout option is for. Then you would not have to deal with hidden notes and chord regions and missing rests.
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Thanks, Derrek. I set staff names to the Player rather than the instrument and got this result (Screenshot 1). The bracketing changed was well as the staff label organization. (Screenshot 3) I really would like to have them organized like the horns are in that screenshot, as they were originally…
and the indication that the instruments were glasses )instead of trumpet) were removed. The 2nd screenshot shows how I originally set it up; glasses are a separate instrument.
Glasses as a separate instrument should not be a problem (unless you plan to condense them as well as the trumpets) but glasses as separate Players would be slightly more complex, but not impossible.
One can always add the label Glasses via SHIFT + X staff-attached text.
Thanks! I found the easiest solution in this case (not necessarily the most elegant) was to create a rest as a glyph in playing techniques and apply that.