StephenG wrote:…May I ask the secret of how you found out that the notes were double-flattened and the accidentals hidden? Did you have a way to "un-hide" them, or was it maybe a guess that you had to verify by trial and error?…
The first clue was this:
StephenG wrote:…A wind quintet score wa imported from a TIFF file using SmartMusic…
Obviously you meant SmartScore, not SmartMusic.
It is well known that Music OCR programs like SmartScore do some weird, crazy things when interpreting “the little dots”.
You have to spend some time “cleaning up the mess” after the OCR.
Some other examples in the document you attached, are the pick measure, and the missing triplet 8th definitions, causing some of the measures to get “overfilled” with regular 8ths.
In some cases there is so much “mess clean-up” to do that it is faster to enter the music manually, from scratch.
Another clue was the fact that notes entered manually displayed and played back correctly in the Clarinet staff.
The final proof came from the (very technical) dialog box Edit Frame which revealed that each note was lowered by two half-steps, and that the note accidentals were hidden.