Ray, I'd be happy to help again... Email me off-list about your time table

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> On Aug 19, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Giovanni Andreani <l...@giovanniandreani.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hello Raymond,
> 
> I’ll be very pleased to help; send one file to me to. Please let me know  
> about specifications regarding the layout, if any, or if you just need those 
> notes in into Finale.
> 
> Giovanni
> 
> 
>> On 15 Aug 2015, at 05:13, Raymond Horton <horton.raym...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Listers,
>> 
>> My Feb, 2014 stair-fall spine injury which followed my October, 2013
>> stroke is continuing to improve from daily exercise, Bromelain and
>> Lubrisyn (natural supplements - I can't take really anything in the
>> way of drugs for it, due to other side-effects from the fall), and I
>> am able to do much more work than I could a year ago, but I still find
>> myself at the mercy if others.I am asking, again, for engraving help.
>> 
>> I made this request before, in 2014, and the result was amazing.  I
>> got help literally all around the world, from these listers:
>> 
>> Dick Hauser (Washington State, US)
>> Allen Fisher (Minnesota, US)
>> Jim Williams (Indianapolis, IN, US)
>> Richard Huggins (Tyler, TX, US)
>> 
>> And, especially, HUGE amounts of help from:
>> 
>> Jón Kristinn Cortez (Reykjavík, Iceland)
>> Bruce Kau (Hawaii, US)
>> 
>> Jon and Bruce have already helped a great deal on the new project, but
>> they have, uhh, LIVES and can't do it all.
>> 
>> As many of you know (I know how it is, you remember details about some
>> people, but not all, on a list like this) I had a stroke at age 60 in
>> October 2013, and followed that up with a bad fall on stairs in Feb
>> 2014 which injured the base of my spine (be careful going down stairs
>> - three members of my family are dealing with life-changing injuries
>> from a fall down stairs!).  I can't sit for hours at a time like I did
>> for YEARS, happily typing away in Finale.
>> 
>> (I am typing this on my laptop, standing, but my Finale chops on it
>> are dismal, and the laptop is way too slow. I've tried
>> standing-desktop setups and they don't work for me.)
>> 
>> Meanwhile, I am in the middle of a big project, a grant (small, but
>> encouraging) to orchestrate the 'Music Play' "Franklin's French
>> Affair" by the late, Pulitzer-awarded composer Ernst Bacon.  I am
>> working actively with the composer's widow, Ellen, to finish the work
>> that Mr. Bacon's failing eyesight would not allow.
>> 
>> I could really use some help!  When I was healthy, I enjoyed nothing
>> more than sitting and making quick arrangements in Finale - did them
>> all the time for others, even strangers on the internet, and I am
>> thinking there are users like me out there who are still healthy and
>> wouldn't mind taking a few minutes now and then to pound out a file or
>> two for me.  Yes?
>> 
>> I only need help with STEP ONE: to take pdfs of Mr Bacon's piano-vocal
>> MS (quite legible) and input them into Finale - any version.  There
>> are about 40 separate songs, some one page, some longer.  I have #1 -
>> 9 orchestrated already, and Bruce is finishing #10 as we speak. (It's
>> quite nice music - which helps!)
>> 
>> Many of you are pros, and have deadlines of your own, but some of you
>> may be able to share some work. No money to offer - I am getting a
>> little for the finished product, but not enough to spread around,
>> unfortunately.
>> 
>> If anyone is with me so far, a message with "I'll do one" or "I'll do
>> all I can" or whatever is all I need to shoot some pdfs your way.
>> 
>> Thanks for any help!
>> 
>> Raymond Horton
>> Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra
>> Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC
>> Composer, Arranger
>> VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com
>> 
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