Klarinet Archive - Posting 000190.txt from 2001/09

From: EbKlarinet@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: rental parts' misprints
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:28:42 -0400

Hi all!

I just finished reading the monumentally long klarinet digest 3317, and came
across this from Karl:

"An unfortunate side-effect of all this is that actual corrections of
misprints get lost in all the scribble, and if the nonsense ever gets
erased, so does the legit correction. Too bad - if the other stuff weren't
competing for attention, maybe I wouldn't need to figure out in a piece
that's been around for 150 years what that note should be at 36 measures
after R that the 3rd horn player is playing a half step lower than me."

I am openly going to admit something that I know will SHOCK many of you---I
actually take black pen and permanently FIX misprints in parts I play!! If
it is very obviously a misprint, I use my pen. If it is at all questionable,
I use a pencil that I have really sharpened, and I dig into the paper, so
even when you erase it, you can still see it.

As far as I know, we've never been fined for doing this, and I KNOW how many
people I've helped after me. If the rental company/publisher is handing out
shoddily-prepared music, and makes no effort to see that it's corrected, then
they have nothing to say about it, AFAIC.

Elise Curran
Orlando, FL

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