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Cannot select DIGIT_5 piano fingering
Piano music indicates fingering with 1-5 (thumb to little finger), but the only options are 0-4.
I'm more familiar with guitar fingering, which defines 0 for open string and then 1-4 for each of left-hand fingers (thumb excluded). We could define a fingering number range as 0-5 to cope with both piano and guitar.
Beside this range question, do you know of clear/standard definition of where this fingering information is usually located, with respect to the note it describes? Above, below, left, right side of the note? If you have any knowledge on this, please share it with me, so that I can implement the linking between fingering and notes.
Fingering for piano are normally above the chords for right hand and below for left hand. See example
For piano and other keyboard instruments, fingering is generally positioned above the RH staff and below the LH staff. If there are multiple voices, they may appear below the RH staff and above the LH staff. Under exceptional circumstances, they may also appear to the left or even to the right of notes.
Vertically stacked numerals indicate fingering for chords, horizontally stacked numerals indicate fingering for trills and similar ornaments. A bracket similar in shape to [ or ] indicates that multiple notes are struck by the same finger.
Finally, fingering substitutions (where a note is struck by one finger and held by another) are indicated either with a short tie between two fingerings, or a dash, and a dash may extend for several beats to indicate where the substitution takes place.
The following excerpt from Behind Bars (p. 309) has some extreme examples for keyboard music:
Thanks @CombatCube for this detailed description. I'm afraid not all this could be easily implemented in Audiveris, especially the "slurred" pair of numerals. But we have here a good basis for the more simple fingerings.
I'm curious about the meaning of "1[" and "]1" found in these examples. For instance, bar 5 of last example, below the staff. Is is one more variant of fingering? And if so, how should we read it?
This is the vertical bracket she mentions in the fourth paragraph. It indicates that multiple notes are struck by the same finger (in this case, the D and the E are both hit by the thumb). Dorico provides this as an alternative to writing the number twice.
