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I (Information) Record
The Information Record is used for any instructions that will be displayed along with the fingering and is displayed as an "Info" button (see Info Buttons).
An information record is associated with the F record that precedes it. The F record can be a full-specification record, a trill reference, or a relative record. It cannot be a message or bitmap record. You can have one Information record for any given F record.
Format:
Ia...a
where a..a = any alphanumeric characters
The total length of the record should not exceed 200 characters. Otherwise it will truncate without a warning or error condition (see Remarks & Hints).
Special I Record - "Shade Windway"
On those rare occasions when you want the fingering to indicate that the windway should be partially covered with the hand ("shaded"), you can put the words "shade windway" to the right of the recorder picture with a special I record. The format is:
Format:
ISHADE
The result will look like this:

You can also have a regular I record to build an Info button, along with the ISHADE record. Normally, if you have 2 I records for a particular fingering, the second one will override the first. However, the ISHADE record is treated as a special case and a second I record will be used to build an info button.
As is usually true with Recorder Digits records, the case does not matter here. Ishade, ishade, etc are treated the same. The important thing is the 5 (and only 5) characters "shade" following the I.
Text Variables can be used on Information records.