[rrayner]

I have found at least some of the answers to my questions. I created the bends in a separate staff, as mentioned before, but I cut and pasted the Control information from the Trombone Bends staff into the original Dixie Trombone staff, and then was able to get rid of the Trombone Bends staff. Surprisingly, this applied to measure 5 as well, where I had to create the bend starting at D5 instead of A4 in the Trombone Bends staff.

Ralph