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 Bigger Method Books
Author: tylerleecutts 
Date:   2014-06-10 21:31

Have you guys ever had problems getting the bigger method books to open well and stay flat on a stand? My Klose Celebrated Method book (the huge orange one) wouldn't do this, and eventually snapped right in half on the binding. .

Do you guys just bind the books with the nicer spiral binding at a ProCopy, or what? Because it's about impossible for books like this to be very convenient in practice.



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 Re: Bigger Method Books
Author: kdk 
Date:   2014-06-10 21:54

Give them a few decades of use and they'll stay open. :)

Karl

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 Re: Bigger Method Books
Author: tictactux 2017
Date:   2014-06-10 21:59

By then your music stand will collapse under its weight.

BTW the Klosé is available online: http://tinyurl.com/69lzje5
Print as needed, or use your Tablet, PC, eBook...

--
Ben

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 Re: Bigger Method Books
Author: Ken Shaw 2017
Date:   2014-06-10 22:55

The standard paper for method books is wood-pulp, which is fairly weak and thin. It will not survive being put in a spiral or comb binding.

Back in the dark ages when books had hard covers, my father showed me the following method.

- Lay the book on its spine on a table.

- Open each cover flat on the table and press with each hand. You should hear a very slight crackling noise.

- Open approximately 20 pages from the front and back and press them down until it crackles a tiny bit.

- Continue until you reach the middle. This will put a slight, smooth bend in the glue that holds the spine.

- When the book is new, you will have to flatten each page as you turn it for the first time. After a few times through, the book will lie open by itself.

Or use paper clips or a clothes pin or a large rubber band. If you use a wire stand, raise the wires that hold the pages open. If you use a Manhasset or Hamilton stand, put books overlapping the edges to hold things open.

The big methods (Klose, Langenus, Lazarus, Baermann) are in three parts. Part 1 is for complete beginners. Get parts 2 and 3 separately.

Or buy a used copy on eBay.

Ken Shaw

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 Re: Bigger Method Books
Author: pewd 
Date:   2014-06-11 02:37

You can take them to office supply stores, and have the binding cut off, and get them either 3 hold punched for spiral bound.

- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas

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 Re: Bigger Method Books
Author: Ed 
Date:   2014-06-11 03:04

Over the years, a number of my students have gotten the Klose spiral bound. It has worked out well.

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 Re: Bigger Method Books
Author: Roxann 
Date:   2014-06-11 03:13

I took my big orange Klose' to Kinko's/Fed Ex and they rebound it using spiral binding. It stays flat when I open it onto the stand, something it wouldn't do before. I LOVE it!



Post Edited (2014-06-11 03:16)

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 Re: Bigger Method Books
Author: Roxann 
Date:   2014-06-11 03:15

When I get a new book, I immediately follow the procedure suggested by Ken. It's my "welcome to my home" greeting to all books I buy. Nothing like the feel of paper to get me excited to delve into a new story:)

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