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What does this symbol mean |O| ? It appears in notation for a chanted psalm. Is there a way to insert this symbol using Finale v 26?

madonna lechner
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    Do you have a picture of it? It sounds like it's just a double whole note which you can insert like you do other notes you just have to select that duration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_whole_note – Dom Feb 14 '22 at 17:59

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The symbol is called a double whole note or breve and is double the length of a whole-note (i.e., eight beats in 4/4 time).

In Finale, a double whole note can be entered using ALT+8. See the below image from the manual.

Finale note entry keyboard shortcuts

Aaron
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  • For graphical representation, see [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_whole_note#/media/File:Breve_notation.svg) – guidot Feb 15 '22 at 08:57