Re: short Musikmesse minutes

[Urs Liska]

Am 19.03.2014 13:27, schrieb Klaus Föhl:
> Hello,
>
> This year a short visit to the Musikmesse only.
> Learning about the "BEST EDITION 2014" award only after the event
> (and would have had to miss that one anyway).
> Congratulations nevertheless to Urs and Janek and all else involved.

Thanks.

> Missing out on the MusicXML meeting as well,
> but I noted it was taking place.

Some of us have been taking part, and it was quite interesting, although 
maybe not really breathtaking.

> As I am in the process of digging out some choir music, published about
> two centuries ago and hence not readily available at your music seller,
> I had been encouraged to approach some music sheet companies whether
> they might be interested. Here we go (translation):
> - Have you typeset in Finale or Sibelius?
> - No, in Lilypond actually
> - Oh, we can't use it, it is too computer-heavy [computerlastig],
> we need to be able to push the note heads around.

Would you mind telling me in private who you talked with? I had quite a 
number of talks with people from publishers and had quite different 
reactions, from outright rejection to a deep understanding of the 
advantages of using plain text tools.

> Well, they might have a point when thinking ink on paper. But (BUT)
> tablets on music stands were ubiquitous at Musikmesse, possibly with
> food pedals for page turning, and that is calling big time for systems
> that allow variable display sizes and hence music reflow.

I have the impression times have never been more promising to get "a 
foot in the door" than now.

> At Klemm music, new music scan software SmartScore. No time to test it,
> but for choir music full version required. Seems to be a full typesetting
> program as well. Data exchange with Finale easily done, using MusicXML
> which the guy says is the well established standard interchange format.

The private equity company that has bought Finale last year seems to 
consider SmartMusic not all that smart ;-)

> Did not spot a stand for Sibelius. I looked but did not hunt for it.

Probably not worth it for them...

Urs

> On the sheet music side the usual suspects, the big houses, some stands
> representing music from eastern European countries, but smaller houses
> that were present one or two years ago no longer present.
>
> Regards
>
> Klaus
>
>
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