Dear Denys, I don't think I would ever be able to read my own handwriting! but I take the point about being connected with the music. I used to use a loose-leaf folder for music that I was preparing for performance(guitar) and I still do that for choral work but my main problem, if it can be called that, is the volume of unbound tablature available. When I played the guitar most of my music was obtained from music publishers and was bound so the problem didnt arise. As people are creating Fronimo and Django files consisting of 100 pages, or more, then the loose filing systems cannot cope so well. Even the Lute Society inserts occupy quite a bit of room when collecte all together. I suppose one has to be more selective but I think it is rather like being in a sweet shop with all the 'goodies' on display. A school friend went to work for Cadbury's at Bournville in the late '50s. He was told that he could sample the chocolates from the assembly line as he would be heartily sick of them after 3 months. I met him 10 years later no longer looking as slim - 'I am still sampling the chocolates' he said. 'They taste even better now, as I know more about chocolate - making'. I would have thought that there is an opportunity for an enterprising person to provide a dedicated printing and binding service for lutenists? best wishes and we may meet at the next LS meeting Charles
-----Original Message----- From: Denys Stephens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2005 21:48 To: lute net Subject: Re: Printing and Binding Dear Charles, Years ago I used to buy music manuscript paper, hand rule an extra line on each stave and bind the pages into a hard covered manuscript book. I then copied each piece by hand into it as I learned it - I liked the sense of connection it gave me with our historical predecessors. I still have about six of these on my shelf and can tell what I was playing over the years. These days, with lots of Fronimo output I use A4 display books - 20, 40 or 60 plastic sleeves in a stiff plastic cover. They open flat. You can put pages back to back so it looks like a normal book. For performances I arrange the pieces in their running order so there's no panic looking for the next piece. There is a version of these folders that allows the individual pages to be repositioned which is handy. The only disadvantage is the reflective quality the pages have if you catch the light at the wrong angle - so you need to be careful about stage lighting when performing. I also use these folders for microfilm print outs of original sources. There is a type that allows you to put a printed insert on the spine which helps to organise everything on my music shelf. I find these ideal and would be lost without them. Best wishes, Denys ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 7:58 PM Subject: Printing and Binding > And now for something completely different! > given that there is so much tablature available in downloadable form, I have > found that printing and binding of A4 sheets is becoming a regular chore. I > have been using plastic comb binders to complete the process, which creates a > document that opens fully on the music stand, but I am going to get a thicker > file professionally bound with thermal 'glue' binding. I also wondered about > using professional printing services to print larger documents as my domestic > printer takes hours to print in best quality, especially when I use duplex > printing. > What does everybody else use and are there some ideas that could be of benefit > to us all? > best wishes > Charles > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.4 - Release Date: 18/03/2005 > > -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.4 - Release Date: 18/03/2005
