Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 5:32 pm:

1. Create a new song using the Piano template.
2. Choose the Staff / Setup command.
3. With the first row selected by default, click the Add button. That creates a second row with Acoustic Grand as the instrument name.
4. Click the Move Up button to move that staff to the top staff position.
5. Change the Staff name and Abbrv of the new first staff to "Mondharmonica" and "MH".
6. Change the Staff name and Abbrv of the second staff to "Keyboard Melodie" and "KB RH".
7. Change the Staff name and Abbrv of the third staff to "Keyboard Acc" and "KB LH".
8. Click the OK button to exit the Staff Setup dialog box.
9. Choose the Part / Display and Define Parts command.
10. In the Display and Define Parts dialog box, unselect Keyboard Melodie and Keyboard Acc so that just Mondharmonica is selected.
11. Click the Add Part command. The new part is named New Part.
12. Change the Part Name from "New Part" to Mondharmonica, and click the Change Part Name button.
13. Under Select Staves in Part, Select Keyboard Melodie and Keyboard Acc and unselect Mondharmonica.
14. Click the Add Part command. The new (third) part is named New Part.
15. Change the Part Name from "New Part" to Keyboard, and click the Change Part Name button.
16. Select the Piano part.
17. Hit the Delete Part button.
18. Click the Display Part and Exit button.

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I found the long and short names of the staffs remained piano resp pno.

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After switching back to the staff menu to check the names again these were canged slowly the names changed very slowly but during this Composer stopped responding, the famous MS error message appeared. I saved the MS error log file and attached it for your information.

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