Like any language, you can get by without taking the time to read or write, especially in the beginning. But there are plenty who wish they had learned earlier. We challenge you to find a pianist who learned to read music and regretted it. Information - Concerts, News,FAQs, Archives. Organs - Electronic (B3 etc.), Pipe, Theatre. Who's Who - Professional Pianists on Piano World Member Recordings - Non Classical Pianist CornerĮVENTS! Piano Concerts, Recitals, Competitions.įun Stuff! - Parties, Tours, Projects & More.įorum Members Parties, Tours, Cruises, & M. MY NEW PIANO or KEYBOARD! - Share Your Story! It took some effort, and a little bit of expense, (a little more than a dollar for the two O rings), but it was well worth it.ĭigital Pianos - Electronic Pianos - Synths &a. The holes in the cardboard are very large, nearly 3/4", which allows the pages to turn very easily and quickly, with everything dependably lying flat and in place. I then bound the cardboard with two large 1" in diameter O rings that open and close, (I bought them at an office supply store). I did this with a photo spray mount, but it could just as easily be done with the kind of glue young children use in school. But later I got the idea of mounting the music onto a lightweight, but still stiff, cardboard sort of material, (similar to the backing used for yellow legal pads). I downloaded the file and opened it in photoshop, rearranged the staffs so the page turned in a better place, cleaned up the shadows from the uneven lighting, and increased the contrast-and printed it out-(I know most of you don't have photoshop, but many newer computers come bundled with photo editing software that will easily do what I just described). I didn't even have to use my fancy hi-res Nikon, as the iphone produced a photo file that was more than sufficient. My solution was to copy the music with my iphone camera. Recently I had a page turning issue with a manuscript which required me to turn the page at a very inopportune time. If I could trade all my yellow books for the impressionist paintings on the covers of the Dover editions, I would. For anything newer, however- from Mozart on- they're just fine.Īnd I vastly prefer them to the more popular (it seems) Schirmer Editions, which offer up very persnickety editorial suggestions. For Bach, they tend to reprint old editions where the note size is very small and compressed- and it's slightly hard to read sometimes. My only slightly large complaint has to do with their reprints of Bach's music. And, nothing is stopping you from getting another edition at some later date. If anything, I find they err on the side of under-editing, which allows a student to scribble in his or her own notes on articulation. They're not urtext, but (to me, at least) they're just fine for most purposes. (I don't see myself buying, say, the complete piano works of Mendelssohn, otherwise.) It's great for building up a "standard repertoire" of material at a relatively low cost. The Dover folks tend to pick editions to re-print that are fairly standard, minimally edited, and clear and easy to read. Music-wise, I've always liked the Dover editions. If a book is well-bound to begin with, there is a method that will "break" the book without stressing the spine.ġ) put the book with the spine on a flat surface, holding the book between your two hands.Ģ) starting at the beginning and the end of the book, and alternate by opening one page at a time and running your finger firmly down the gutter (where the page joins the spine)ģ) keep working from front and back towards the centre of the book.Ĥ) by the time you reach the centre - and if the book is well-bound to begin with - you will have stretched the stitching sufficiently that the book should now stay open at almost any page with minimal amount of "re-touching" on the spot. Or, the technique only works on the piece that I'm playing, but elsewhere in the book the fold I've made is not suitable and must be re-done, causing more wear. A drastic step I've taken is to do my best to muscle the book as flat as possible, but this causes undue wear on the spine, and I've ended up with a lot of books where pages have fallen out due to such abuse.
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