Klarinet Archive - Posting 000311.txt from 1998/04

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Page turners
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:33:15 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.55
> Subj: Re: Page turners

> On that interminable and convoluted copyright thread, Scott Morrow asked:
> >What ever happened to page turners?
>
> You can't always get them even for performances, and who has a page turner
> for practice? I have often envisioned a spring-loaded gadget that would
> clamp to a music rack and flip a page when you touched a button releasing
> the spring. It's hard to figure why some gadgeteer hasn't come up with one.
>
> Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.net>

Are you familiar with the use of the technique called "dutch door"?

The true use of the term deals with doors in farm houses that are
bisected left to right in the middle. Thus one can have the lower
portion of the door closed while the upper portion remains open.

One can do the same thing with page turns in music. You find a place
in the music where you can make a page turn and you cut the sheet
horizontally at that point. In playing the work you turn the upper
portion of the dutch door revealing the other side, while you continue
with the lower portion of the dutch door. As soon as you reach what
was the real page turn you may continue with ease. Of course, you
have to turn the lower page of the dutch door at a convenient time
too.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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