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String bow direction symbols above fingerings
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Your idea
Hi, so here's one feature request that would change the life of a lot of violin teachers out there. Please make an option to put the string bow strokes symbols above fingerings. That's it. A simple option in the Format > Style > Articulations would do it and it would save hours of work. Thanks a lot.
Problem to be solved
Most violin teachers prefer fingerings below bow strokes. In all standard violin books it's like that, see example attached. But for some unknown reason, we have to do each and every one manually in MuseScore, which is a pain.
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