Klarinet Archive - Posting 000795.txt from 2000/01

From: "Diane Karius, Ph.D." <dikarius@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] music copies
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:27:30 -0500

Tim Roberts wrote:
>
> I don't see the need for paper at all. In my imaginary "band of the future",
> each player's stand has a flat, paper-white LCD display, about 11"x17".

Oh I like this - no more looking for that one peice of music that has
magically attached itself to the back of something else... Or even
better, that mystical moment when the conductor realizes she is
conducting something different than what the band is playing (I won't
tell you how long that went on to avoid embarrassing the director,
but the look on her face as she flipped back in forth in the score
was truely amazing!)

> Page turns could be handled by a single tap on the surface, or by a foot
> switch, or even by automatic slow scrolling.

What - and lose those wonderful moments where the editors of the
sheet music have decreed that the clarinetist can turn the page in
the midst of 7 lines of sixteenth notes runs requiring both hands
to play and no rests (even in the two measures straddling the page
turn)? Heresy!

>
> Now, if I just had some venture capital, and a cool domain name....

I think I hear our librarian panting at the thought that
her space requirements just dropped to room for a CD for each piece!

And just think- if you do it right, you can make it so the display is
adjustable for those individuals suffering from presbyopia (old age!
:-) who need to have their music stands in the next row up in order
to see the notes.

Good idea!
Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University of Health Sciences
1750 Independence Ave.
Kansas City, MO 641o6-1453
email: dikarius@-----.EDU
http://uhsweb.edu/physio

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