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I installed Finale 25.2 30 day trial today and the first song I thought to try was Ave Marie by Chet Atkins which is using a DGDGBE string tuning.  So I made a new Tablature Staff Attribute and see it in the Instrument combo box in the Tablature Staff Attributes dialog.  I would like to create a new instrument to be listed in the Add Instrument that has this new Tablature Staff Attribute assigned to it but I don't see how to do that.  Where or how do I create an new Instrument that shows up in the Add Instrument button list?

What I am calling an instrument is in the ScoreManager dialog window, below the list of staff/instruments that are being used in the document that is a Add Instrument... button that opens a 3 column selection drop down.  First column is All, Common, etc.  The second column is type of instrument, I am selection Tablature, and then the third column list Guitar [TAB], Guitar [TAB - No Staff Name], etc.  I want to add a new option to the 3rd column called Guitar DGDGBE [Tab] which has my new Tablature Staff Attribute and Fretboard Instrument Definition assigned to it.

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Unfortunately what you are asking for, is not a simple task.

In Finale v25 the list of instruments is stored in a MySQL database document which is used by both the Instrument List and the Document Setup Wizard.

 

If you are familiar with MySQL, then you could try to edit the database yourself.

 

If you are not familiar with MySQL, then I suggest that you instead create a Finale template with the settings you need, and use that template when creating new documents.

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Understand, thanks.

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