Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2004-02-23 18:17
Bob Schwab wrote:
> I checked out the price on the pens that Mark offered the links
> for. GEEZ! These things cost over $200 a piece! I'm sure you
> could buy some notation software for a *%&# load less money
> than that! Once you got past the learning curve you'd be able
> to produce in seconds what would take you hours to do by hand.
There are times that taking a pen in hand and experiencing a tactile feel can help with the flow of (words, music, art, etc.) There's artistry in the creation of music; the best notation programs out there are just now becoming able to match what a typesetter does (check the output of Finale from a amateur like me, against the output from someone who works with Finale for a living, against the output after a typesetter "tweaks" the final output).
I daresay that few people nowadays have ever experienced a truly fine fountain pen. While I haven't used a fountain pen in a long time, I still remember the feel. I'm old enough to remember when we "graduated" to using fountain pens in grade school. Unfortunately, penmanship was never my forté :(
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