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Re: French Horns

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Subject: Re: French Horns
From: Alastair Wheeler <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 03:10:01 +0100 (BST)
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On Sun, 17 May 1998, Adrian Drover wrote:

> Maybe because, as Alistair (hope I got the spelling correct this time :-)

Oh well...

> says, everything has to be standardized and the PJBE is now the "official"
> instrumentation that has to be used at all times. You can't go around
> inventing your own instrumentation ;-)

Well OK you can, but (IMHO) to get pieces played (or even bought :) it's
good to use something regarded as a standard.

> Can't afford a copyist these days. I use Sibelius software for music
> preparation. I have designed my own music and texts fonts so that the
> print out now looks very close to professionally hand written pen and ink
> manuscript. At present, Sibelius is only available for Acorn computers,
> but will soon be ready for Mac and PC markets.

I know there's a recent addition to Sibelius of a 'handwritten' style for
printing big band parts - What are your views on this, Adrian?

-- 
  Alastair Wheeler	 
  Euphonium & Trombone				   Fundamental Brass
  Bass Trombone				  City of Oxford Brass Band
  alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~alastair
  "I am following my fish"


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