musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Mellophone defaults to MS Basic Trombone when importing scores

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Since Jun 26, 2026.

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Your idea

Can this be switched to automatically default to either MuseSounds French Horn or even MS Basic Horn?

Problem to be solved

Mellophone defaults to MS Basic Trombone when importing scores from MuseScore 3 into MuseScore 4. This does not seem to be the best practice.

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