Author: OneWatt
Date: 2021-02-24 04:10
Karl: "What tablet do you use? I use a laptop with a 12" diagonal screen to avoid having to print out the music I download (from IMSLP and other sites), but I find even that limits the amount of the page I can access without scrolling. And, of course, the problem is worse if I enlarge the image. Do you just tolerate the need for more scrolling?"
FYI, I picked up an Android tablet discontinued model brand by "Insignia" at Best Buy for around US$100 a few years ago for this very purpose. It's a touchscreen with detachable keyboard that's around 13" diagonal screen. Resolution is not Apple "retina" quality, but extremely good - with nothing lacking in terms of comfort/readability.
Easy on the eyes, you can pinch/zoom as needed. But set up landscape mode I can easily see the top half of a page in what is basically "full size" ... then touch the right side of the screen and it jumps to the bottom of the page. Then touch it again and it turns to the top of the next page ... basically it has divided a full page at full size into a top half and bottom half.
The tablet fits on a music stand and can bee seen easily in light or dark lighting at arm's length. It's great for practice, and the MobileSheets app lets me store and organize music on an SD card - more material than I could attack in a lifetime (e.g., all the clarinet classic methods, etc., plus material for several other instruments I use it for). You can also play MIDI files in sync with the music score, set metronome speeds/tones, and other such bells/whistles.
Using this fairly inexpensive software ("MobileSheets") one can load any pdf music file and manage everything with a host of library-style features: text annotations, music markings, flip sheets, all on touchscreen and/or detachable keyboard. Can also hook up foot pedal bluetooth page-turning device (also pretty cheap) but the touchscreen works easily enough for my purposes.
All together, it makes for an extremely affordable and highly reliable solution. Yet truth be told I prefer the visual/tactile experience of playing off of old-fashioned paper - not LED screens. My old school method books never need to be recharged either ;-)
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