Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2016-09-28 06:23
A community band I've sat in with on occasion plays mostly marches, many of them quite difficult. Frequently these are small parts (I think they're sometimes called "flip" size). They're often many decades old, faded and ragged, and the 1st parts tend to be rather dense with 16th notes and ledger lines above the staff. The lighting, especially later in the season, is usually either dim or blocked, or both. Sight reading is the rule, not the exception, and the same goes for the middle-to-older agedness of performers' eyes.
It is a great relief that over the years members have made enlarged photocopies of many of those parts. The originals are simply too hard to see. No doubt publishers would prefer in those cases that a different edition in larger format be purchased. That's probably not going to happen, given the realities of small band budgets.
Sorry about this not addressing the original question, but things seemed to be veering slightly off anyway.
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