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Electric Guitar (treble clef) incorrectly transposes when linking to a TAB staff

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Description

Issue type

Engraving bug (incorrect score rendering)

Description with steps to reproduce

With the instruments
Acoustic Guitar (treble clef)
and
Guitar (treble clef)
if you link a TAB staff, it behaves correctly as expected.

If, however, you try to link a TAB staff to Electic Guitar (treble clef),
the TAB is incorrect (transposed one octave too high).

electric guitar tab error

Supporting files, videos and screenshots

electric guitar tab error.zip

What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?

OS: Windows 10 Version 2009 or later, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.3.2-241630831, revision: github-musescore-musescore-22b46f2

Regression

No.

Operating system

Windows 10 64 home

Additional context

This should be solvable with simple modifications to the instruments.xml file.

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