Klarinet Archive - Posting 000992.txt from 2003/02

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The C-T manuscript at UCSC
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:13:42 -0500

You missed the part where you write the wrong note or whatever on the
onionskin. The only way to "erase" it is with a strange pointed and then
curved reed-like knife. You wait 'til it dries, then "gently" scrape the
ink away, brush the dry ink away with a photo lens brush, and put in the
correction. (I did this on the parts for the orchestra director at
university for his first (and probably only) piano concerto many years ago.)

Jim

>From: alevin@-----. Levin)

> Let me tell you from experience: That process was a pain in the
>posterior. First you wrote your manuscript. Then you corrected your
>manuscript. Then you started in on the onionskin copy. Then you gave it
>to the printer and hoped that you had everything where it was supposed to
>be. Then you got the printed copies and were immensely proud of the
>result. Then, after a few days or weeks, you took the printed copies to
>rehearsal and found that you had missed sharps, flats, dots, notes, measure
>lines, etc. or, worse, the printing process blurred some of the above or
>they didn't print. You wanted to curse the copyist - but that was you!

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