Klarinet Archive - Posting 000018.txt from 2008/06

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rant du jour
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:40:00 -0400

I think the reason that some things are rental is that the demand is low
and it is expensive to create parts. I am pretty sure that many rentals
are copies of hand written parts and scores. I got the scores for the
Shostakovich Ballet Suites a number of years ago and that was what they
were. The scores had been made by an older copying technology and bound
(I can't remember exactly how) by hand.

Gary
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Joseph H. Fasel wrote:
> No, I think David has a point. The main thing the publisher is
> getting out of renting is assuring that that the rental fee is paid
> every time somebody needs the parts (and note there may still be a
> performance license fee in addition to the rental fee). With today's
> processes for producing printed scores and parts, the publisher might as
> well print up fresh ones (without somebody's idiotic markings on them
> that didn't quite get erased) for each rental. The cost of that is
> minimal.
>
> --Joe
>
> On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 15:05 +0100, Matthew Lloyd wrote:
>> How then do you avoid the publisher charging the same for rental as for
>> purchase? Surely he has to do this to make money? Renting is based on the
>> premise of reuse.
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Blumberg [mailto:blummy@-----.net]
>> Sent: 31 May 2008 13:51
>> To: klarinet@-----.org
>> Subject: RE: [kl] Rant du jour
>>
>> Personally I don't think that used parts should be rented at all. If
>> somebody is paying top dollar for a musical rental, they should get new
>> parts every time.
>> But that's just my opinion.
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