#10 Add option to use the treble clef in both staves

[Antonio Ospite]

Hi, pianobooster does not seem able to show scores with two treble clefs (also called dual-g clef, see http://www.theoreticallycorrect.com/MusicFiction/new-grand-staff/)

I was startin with Beyer Op. 101 (converting some exercises to midi and trying them in pianobooster), but they uses this dual-G clef notation.

As a begineer I would find it useful to have the score representetd like in the book (see the attachment). Can this be made configurable?

Thanks,
Antonio

[Antonio Ospite]

Hi, I think I overlooked the article I was mentioning above about the "new grand staff".

That article was proposing a new notation to replace the Bass clef, and in fact on the bottom staff there was a "-2" to indicate that the staff was two octaves below, in order to cover the whole keyboard.

This is not what the Bayer notation implies, and not what I am proposing for pianobooster.
In the Bayer exercises the two staffs, which serve the purpose to communicate what each hand should play, have exactly the same Treble clef, in the sense that they refer to the same relative position on the keyboard.

I see it as a way to compare more intuitively what the two hands should do, relatively to a C note.

But regardless of why it is used, it is a notation which is used in the book, and I so tried to see what it would take to support it in pianobooster.

I am attaching a patch with a quick and dirty proof of concept.

[Antonio Ospite]

And here is how PB looks with the patch applied, it matches the score from the book.

[Michael Gambacurta]

Thanks Antonio for contributing this patch! I was looking for this for parts that shouldn't be split be middle C.

How do you install this patch? I'm not familiar enough with Windows to do this. Thanks

Cheers

[Antonio Ospite]

Hi Michael, my patch is just a rough expriment, it always forces the Treble clef, with no way of changing it back to the Bass cleff with the user interface.

To try it you'd need to recompile pianobooster from the source code. I am not on Windows so I won't be able to help there.

[AlexL]

Forwarding: https://github.com/captnfab/PianoBooster/issues/52