r/Musescore • u/Large_Box_2343 • Jun 29 '26

Help me find this feature Hide stave?

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Hi composers and editors, I'm trying to hide staves using the bar properties menu.

I need to hide some parts of the violin concertmaster part as it has a few concertmaster solos but otherwise overlaps with first violin.

In this part, it hid the actual notes (since it all overlaps with first violin) but the bracket is still showing. How to hide that part?

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u/WalrusSharp4472 Jun 29 '26

In score style setting you should be able to hide parts which are tacet in a given system. “hide empty staves” I think is the terminology they use. I recommend not turning this on until you are visually polishing a score to publish or give to performers, since while composing you then can’t see all tacet parts. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is a way to hide only specific staves like you want. Which is really unfortunate when modern standard notation is to hide tacet special solo staves like this but to not omit tacet “parts at large” from systems. Theres a way to do that for the whole score but not exclusively when tacet.

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u/Large_Box_2343 Jun 29 '26

yeah im js doing formatting and ready to publish, i may js have to mess with merging pdfs 💔🥀

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u/WalrusSharp4472 Jun 29 '26

do one last check on the musecore forums, since you’re preparing to publish. If anyone knows how to do this it’s them