When I am working in Concert Pitch, I frequently use the piccolo clef to push xylo (& glock) up an octave to start. IIRC the instrument parts automatically switch back to standard clefs with the expected transposition for those instruments.

Thanks.

BY "piccolo clef" do you mean the Treble Clef with the little "8" on top?

I tried that, but the clef does indeed change in the linked part which is not desirable.

Unless you have over-ridden this somehow?

You're correct: I must restore the normal clef before printing the part or converting to a transposed score.

Don't forget you can have different clefs in the concert score and in the parts.

ScoreManager : "First clef" (Concert score) can be the one with the 8.

Then in the ScoreManager, use Transposition -> Other : Down octave + Set to clef : normal clef.

Thanks.
Actually I thought of something else that's really easy.

The composer said he doesn't mind if those transposing percussion parts are in the score as they would be "written" for the player. So I put in the BELLS part, for example, 2 octaves lower. Then I defined a "Staff Style" with transposition set to "none" and applied it to the part. Makes it dead easy too for a multi-instrument part -- select the necessary bars and apply the style.

I think I'll do something similar the next time I have a woodwind flute/picc doubling part when the picc gets up high.