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Hi there! I've made some improvements to the Score Wizard, including the ability to create a new score based on an existing document. I also did some work on the part types, adding several new instruments and doing some clean-up on existing ones.
Creating scores from existing documents
I added a new command under File -> New -> From Current Document... that pre-populates the Score Wizard's fields based on an existing score. At the moment it handles headers and score properties well, and has partial support for recognizing existing parts -- at least those named following the Score Wizard's own convention. This is a first step towards using the Wizard to edit an existing score in-place, as requested in issue #888.
A few caveats:
Changes to instrument/part types
I've also added a few new instrument types to the Score Wizard that I think will be especially helpful for writing rock and popular music. Specifically, these are:
The new guitar types are based on the existing classical guitar and jazz guitar, respectively, but with instrument names that don't tie them to a particular style or genre. They also default to different MIDI sounds, for example steel-string rather than nylon-string for the acoustic guitar. The electric piano is similarly a cosmetic rename of the existing piano type. Listing it separately allows distinguishing that instrument from the acoustic variety in styles (or individual scores) where both are used.
The synth types allow omitting the left- or right-hand parts by setting the corresponding number of voices to zero, to avoid generating extraneous staffs when writing monophonic lines. "Synth lead" and "synth bass" respectively default to a single treble- or bass-clef staff. The other synth types default to two staves, as these are intended for writing polyphonic parts.
Finally, I renamed the plucked string instrument "Bass" to "Acoustic bass" (abbreviated "A.Bs."), to differentiate it from the bass voice or other stringed bass instruments.