Klarinet Archive - Posting 000121.txt from 2011/01

From: matthew dineen <mgnat45@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Music scanning and transcription software?
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:55:06 -0500

Hello, everyone.

I play with amateur groups that have piano cello and sometimes violin plus me. There's not as much written for clarinet in chamber pieces in the 18th and 19th Century as we all might like, and we might just like to play pieces not originally written for our instrument. (Plus pieces written for the A clarinet, not the B Flat, for those of us who only have the B Flat).

And there are pieces written for other instruments in more or less the same range - viola, flute, oboe, basset horn, even violin, I think.

It would be great if there were transcriptions of these parts for clarinet easily available, but they seem hard to come by.

I've read that to get around the problem many clarinetists have become adept at transposing at sight concert pitch parts, or can easily transpose them in writing. For me, an amateur, that's too labor-intensive and likely to result in many errors.

I've heard that there are music softwares, SmartScore in particular, that can be used to scan in the viola, flute etc. part, then export it to Sibelius or Finale to transpose it with the click of a mouse to "our" B flat.

I know this is the lazy musician's out, but I have a full-time job (not music), and family. So, has anyone had experience, good or bad, with these music scanning plus transposition softwares?

I know that "office" software for character recognition (OCR) is not yet 100%. How accurate is the music scanning and transposition software, and is it yet worth the considerable investment?

Or does anyone have any other ideas for dealing with the situation?

Thank you so much, in advance,for your thoughts.

Matt Dineen (NYC)

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