Klarinet Archive - Posting 000400.txt from 1998/04

From: delton.sizemore@-----.au
Subj: Re[2]: Page turners
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:57:37 -0400

I've thought of having an electrically driven roll of music controlled
by a pedal. It would be like a piano roll except horizontal. It
would display say 4 pages at once and the player could move the pages
across either as a smooth continuous motion of get it to flip across 1
page at a time in a fraction of a second. It would incorporate a light
of just the right brightness to read the music.

Shoulds I design and patent such a device? Any backers?

Del Sizemore

sizemod@-----.au

Subject: Re: Page turners
Author: <klarinet@-----.us > at smtpgwy
Date: 07/4/98 11:55 AM

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>