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Instrument Numbering

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Description

Your idea

It is common practice to notate condensed parts in the following manner:
20240620_230936

Problem to be solved

There is no simple way to do this in Musescore, and I'm not even sure that there is any way at all.

Prior art

No response

Additional context

This brings up a much bigger point though, which is having two similar instruments share a staff for the whole score. For that, please see post #25217.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing MuseScore's existing instrument and staff-handling behavior, then read the related context in issue #25217. The issue does not name files, entry points, tests, or a sufficiently specific completion condition, so the desired notation and shared-staff behavior need clarification before implementation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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