Dan Heiman wrote:
> I have recently encountered a distressing problem with a recording --
> although it is only about 15 years old, it will no longer play in any of
> the players in my possession. The CD, disk 1 of Monteverdi's Second
> Vespers for Santa Barbara done by the Sixteen (with Nigel No
Hi Daniel, et al
Point taken regarding digital media going out of date. I was not
suggesting relying on lute-tablature saved this way. Merely to print ones
own legible paper copy to perform from, with as much of the ornamentation
as can be gleaned from the original, even if it happens to be o
Very well said, Daniel.
There is also the problem of typographical errors which may exist in
Fronimo files, PDF's etc. which are available on the Internet. If you
know the piece, then you can tell where the typo's are and correct
them; but if you don't know the piece, something other than the
Ron:
Converting old prints and manuscripts to digital formats and media is
*not necessarily* the best solution, for a couple of reasons.
First, there is the question of "extraneous" marks and flyspecks that you
may ignore today when making your transcription, but next decade someone
may discover
