Klarinet Archive - Posting 001292.txt from 1998/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Urgent Plea
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:40:05 -0500

At 11:05 AM 3/27/98 -0500, Mark Charette wrote:
>And why, for the price tou have to pay for rental music, doesn't
>the publisher get the plates out of the basement and _correct_ the
>=#$%^ thing?
>
>And why, while I'm on the soapbox, don't the publishers either
>create new plates or electronically redo the music? I have in front
>of me the International Spohr #4. They suggest when performing with
>piano to take a cut from A to B. Thank goodness they did - since
>the entire section to B is printed with stems with skips, half notes
>with upper sections indistinct, etc. It'd take a good half hour or
>with an fine tip pen to fix up the page to be readable (never mind
>that the section is printed significantly smaller than the rest of
>the sections).
>--
Correcting plates would be quite difficult and expensive. Even correcting
manuscript must be a bother. The books for "Grand Hotel" were done on a
computer (and then diazo copied as usual for musical scores). These should
be much easier to correct, although they won't be until the books are worn
out. And they are much more readable than manuscript.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.