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Unisons for particular noteheads

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Description

Your idea

Allow the number of voices sounding in unison to be applied to each notehead (for example, a 2 (two voices sound), a 5 (five voices sound), etc.). We are talking about woodwind/brass instruments, in the writing of which there are often doubling players in unison.
At the same time, the application of such things is meant specifically to a particular notehead of the voice, and not to the entire chord/voice.

Problem to be solved

When writing a score, we often have to deal with doubling players. Take a look at the following examples:
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Agree that 6 French horns is not 1 French horn (or even 3).
Someone might say to me: if you want to hear 6 Horns in unison, then create 6 staves. But can you imagine how much space these six staves will take up in the full score? In musical notation, the convention is more appropriate that 6/8 players can be notated on one/two staves. And I don't find it convenient to get the sound of, for example, 6 Horns in the following way:
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Instead, you can use what I suggested at the beginning. This will allow you to get the appropriate sound (of several instruments in unison).

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Additional context

It is important that the text indicating the number of players is not just some kind of staff text or sound flag, which after changing the sound profile from Muse Sounds becomes a regular staff text, as with MS Basic. Such a text should be applied (as I already stated at the beginning) to a particular voice notehead and set a certain number of instruments sounding in unison with both MS Basic and Muse Sounds. The auto-placement of such a text should also be different (where there is room, the numerals for 2 (or more) players are placed on opposite sides of the stave, closest to their notes, or otherwise above/below the stave; where there are two stems, the numerals are placed to the left of these stems, stacked if there is room, otherwise sequentially, and the numerals for unison players should appear side by side).

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No source file, test, or entry point is identified in the issue. Begin by locating the existing notehead, voice/unison playback, and automatic text-placement behavior; done means a player count can apply to an individual notehead, works with MS Basic and Muse Sounds, and follows the requested placement rules.

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Tech stack
cpp
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desktop
Issue type
Feature
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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