Of course the Smart Staff behaves well when you resize it: No need to meddle and fiddle with individual clef shapes, sharp shapes and flat shapes: All of these instances come from the same shape. Here’s a sample of what can be done with the Smart Staff. You only need to set two parameters to get the signature you need! You can see how it works LIVE! in this video, or read the rest of the article. A single Visio shape that contains a clef sign, and the appropriate number of sharps or flats. A limited world with a set number of parameters. All the major and minor keys contain from 0 to 7 sharps or flats. If you’re misfortunate enough to have heard of the Circle of Fifths, you’ll know that there is an eerie system to the way sharps and flats materialize on the musical staff for Western music. I don’t think Visio will ever be a practical music-notation editing system, but it could be used for light mark up, instructional illustration, and printing blank sheets of music note ledger paper. Since I work with Microsoft Visio so much, it seemed a good idea to combine the two interests. This sets me in the mood to invent songs in the U-Bahn on the way to work. It reminds me of Beethoven or some other mad composer. When my (very cute) 19-month-old daughter wakes up in the morning, her hair is messy and curly.But occasionally, we like a challenge too. Trombones typically read non-transposed, Bass clef, which makes our lives easy and allows more time for beer. Since orchestral trombone parts are often dull, I like to mess around with trumpet parts, which are written in treble clef, and transposed to B-flat (whatever that means).I’ve been playing my trombone in the ESME amateur orchestra in Munich, as well as the Pullacher Blasmusik (although sadly not so much lately…).My interest in music theory has been growing lately. You can use it to print out music note paper or illustrate bits of music theory in other documents. Here’s my first offering: a Smart Staff shape that you easily configure with clef and key.

I’ve been playing around with Visio and music notation, very slowly, for some time now.

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