Bernard Hill writes: | | Much music in the UK is printed on B4 paper, or close to it... | | I don't think there should be any standard for paper size - you should | be allowed to specify your own.
Good idea in general. For example, I've been contacted by a few people involved in such things as marching bands and other similar music. These typically use a small music-holder "lyre" on many instrument. There is a bit of variability in the paper size, but it's much smaller than the usual A4 and letter pages, for obvious reasons. I don't have any on hand, but I think in the US it's about 6x4 inches, which would be 15x10 cm. And, since the music is fairly close to the face, it can be smaller than for most other printed music. The ability to specify both page size and scaling (as abc2ps and its clones do) is quite valuable for such uses. Here in New England there are a number of groups who do Revolutionary War reenactment groups who use this music format. Further south, you see the same thing at Civil War reenactments. My wife and I have played for both on various occasions. She likes to tell people about ancestors who fought in both wars and on on both sides. (They weren't the same ancestors in both wars, of course.) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
