David,
My wife will tell you that I use Finale at home ("work is work, no matter
where you do it...") :-)
Whether for creating tests and worksheets, or doing moonlighting
orchestrations, or working on my own compositions, or something for church,
or my wife needing something for her elementary school classroom, I my
personal license about every day.
Of course, now with laptops, I use it a lot of other places as well. Point
is that I own a personal license that I use on a regular basis, in and out
of the academic setting. It would be interesting to see what percentage of
Finale licenses are of the single user variety. I expect it is pretty
large. Like Hal's experience, many of my students (practically all of my
composition students) buy their own copy of Finale before they leave
college.
I think a good indicator would be number of active single user licenses.
Ask Coda. I know they sell a lot of them.
Tim
On 9/23/02 2:00 PM, "Fisher, Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Long before I came to work here at Coda, I used Finale 97 at home (windows),
> and while I was in college I maintained a mac lab with Finale 3.2.1 and 3.5
> (and taught many a fellow student the joys of Finale)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Owen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 11:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: real live users
>
>
> David McKay writes:
>
>> I have been using Finale since 1995, but have never met a person who
>> uses the program *at home.* I have met a few people who use it in
>> schools, though.
>
> Dear David,
>
> Although I have taught composition in college for over 30 years and
> supervised the lab courses in Finale, I have done 95% of my work in
> Finale at home. My students may start in the lab, but they all
> eventually use Finale at home and leave the lab for the beginners. I
> do almost all of my composing at home, mostly with pencil and paper
> first. Like Linda, I have very little trouble with lyrics in Finale,
> and I have settled on Type Into Score almost exclusively. I'm sure
> this is typical for many composers on the list, but I know that
> people involved with the music business, copyists, arrangers, musical
> theatre, church musicians, etc., may work differently.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Hal
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