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Author: salzo
Date: 2011-03-05 13:23
I have a ton of duets that I wrote out by hand, and I want to get them made into printed form.
I dont want to spend the time learning software, and then doing it myself.
Is there anywhere that I can send out the hand written stuff, to have it put into printed format?
THanks for any help.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2011-03-05 14:08
The problem is that the current state of the art of OCR (optical character recognition) in the available commercial music software isn't yet strong enough even to recognize all printed music well. Manuscript is, as far as I know, not within the capabilities of any of the major music OCR programs. So regardless of who actually does the work, the only option would be to put the music into a notation program from scratch. If you aren't comfortable in Finale or Sibelius or one of the other notation packages, you may be able to hire someone else to do the work, but there's no direct way, as far as I know, to go from your manuscript copies to print electronically.
Karl
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2011-03-05 14:27
The fastest way would probably be to give it to a piano player with a MIDI keyboard, and the resulting MIDI can be transformed to print.
That might be the least cumbersome approach these days, at least for "unproblematic" stuff.
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Ben
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2011-03-05 15:15
Try looking for music engravers on odesk.com. This is a site for free-lance workers. There are many qualified music engravers who can do what you want very cheaply since many are in 3rd world countries and charge next to nothing for their time. All you have to do is get them a digital copy of what you have. I advertised there for a while, but had to drop it because I couldn't compete with their very low prices for that kind of work.
added: I used one person on odesk to put some manuscript by Michel Yost on to computer typesetting and was pleased by the results and the price. I sent him a scanned copy and he sent back a completed score as a PDF file. He did a very professional job of figuring out the hard-to-read manuscript from the 1780's and did it quickly, too. A fellow from Greece, as I remember.
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
Post Edited (2011-03-05 23:29)
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2011-03-05 19:21
Post a request on this board for someone that is good with the software and offer to pay them something for doing it for you. If you have a university or music college near you I'm sure you can find a student willing to do it for a few bucks.
Contact the composition department and ask them for a recommendation for a student in need to make a few bucks. ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: davyd
Date: 2011-03-06 01:46
I agree that in the short term, it's appropriate to outsource this task. I particularly like TicTacTux's idea.
But in the long term, especially if you might write another ton of anything, it's worth your time to learn software. Certainly you don't need the power and complexity of Finale right away. But software it where it's at nowadays.
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2011-03-06 02:42
I agree that finding a university near you will probably be the fastest way and for not much money.
Other options are to go to a guitar/rock music store in the area and ask people there "do you guys know anyone that could..." and, probably, one of the staff in the store would offer to do it for a reasonable fee.
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Author: Gary Van Cott
Date: 2011-03-06 17:45
There are services that do this. I had a couple of contacts from a group in the Philippines. I could probably find their email address if you were interested.
Gary
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Author: jeig
Date: 2011-03-08 03:03
I do engraving work. Email me if you don't mind keeping the work in the US.
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Author: clariniano
Date: 2011-03-08 03:11
Notation programs are not that hard to learn, even if you don't use the tutorial. Many of them are user friendly, especially if you get a starter version, like Finale Printmusic or Sibelius' similar product. Would also save you the expense of constantly hiring someone. Though I had a student last year who among her tasks were to write out my hand-written exercises, pieces, and duets I wrote my hand then to notation, because there were so many of them that I probably would not be able to catch up.
Meri
Please check out my website at: http://donmillsmusicstudio.weebly.com and my blog at: http://clariniano.wordpress.com
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Author: gwie
Date: 2011-03-08 03:55
Make sure to check out MuseScore.org!
This free, open source score editor has come a long way since its beta days, and it is a surprisingly usable in it's first final version (1.0). It exports MusicXML, so any Finale or Sibelius user can load it right up...
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Author: Tony M
Date: 2011-03-08 11:07
Thanks for the tip about Musescore. I've just watched the training videos and it looks to be very good.
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Author: salzo
Date: 2011-03-08 19:31
Thanks everyone for help, advice, opinions.
i THINK i AM GOING TO SIT DOWN AND GET UP TO THE 21ST CENTURY.
Im going to get the software being refered to for future projects, but Im going to hire someone to do the scripts that I already have.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2011-03-08 23:38
Perfect idea, salzo...Hire someone for the short term, and if they're local to you, maybe they can teach you how to use the program too!
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Author: Tony M
Date: 2011-03-09 20:38
I downloaded MuseScore and I'm impressed at how functional it is. I looked at a free version of Finale a long time ago and I didn't like it because of the drag and drop method of inputting pitches (to be fair to Finale, I didn't give it a lot of time and I'm sure they have update pitch input) and so gave up on it.
The inputting of pitches through a midi keyboard makes this so much easier that I expect to use this a lot more. Thanks again, gwie, for the tip.
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