Klarinet Archive - Posting 001290.txt from 1998/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Urgent Plea
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:40:03 -0500

At 08:20 AM 3/27/98 -0600, Neil Leupold wrote:
>Every rental company I've ever worked with conditionally permits notation
>directly onto the sheet music, as long as the marks are in pencil and are
>erased prior to return-shipment to the publisher. Sometimes I'm able to
>make a copy of the music and use it for mark-ups and performance, but when
>this isn't possible, there's no guilty conscience involved in using a
>pencil and marking the sheet music I'm originally provided. When a piece
>of music is put on my stand with unerased markings by a previous perform-
>er, I pull out my eraser and erase them, with the additional hope that
>the rental company imposed an additional charge to the orchestra which
>returned this part without erasing all such marks beforehand. That's
>the way it's supposed to work, anyway.
>
Of course, the additional charge is SUPPOSED to pay for THEIR expense in
removing the marks. I just got the book for a musical I am playing that
still has substituted parts TAPED into the book, in spite of strong
warnings by the publisher against using tape. I'll bet nobody got charged,
either. But I still intend to make a note of it for when WE return the
book, so nobody tries to charge US for it!

And yes, I have every intention of making pencil marks in the book.
Plastic erasers are very effective, cleaner than art gum, and don't abrade
the paper. But in the past, when I have needed to transpose parts, I have
written them out on my own manuscript paper and used paper clips to hold them.

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