Michael Edwards.
[Keith Helgesen:]
>A couple of years ago, with similar thoughts to yourself, I canvassed almost
>all the music publishers of band music and was told, fairly abruptly that
>they employed their own 'in house' engravers and arrangers and were not
>interested in freelancers.
I guess it would be very difficult to become one of these - especially in
Australia - and without elaborate musical degrees after your name? (I have no
formal qualifications at all.)
>My advice is keep it as a hobby, enjoy the satisfaction of occasionally
>hearing your work performed, and link up, probably as a performer as well,
>with the best/biggest orch you can find.
I should perhaps clarify this. I was thinking of music engraving as a
separate thing from composing, which I would always regard as a personal
interest, never a source of income. In considering doing engraving, I was
thinking of it as a source of income, since I would probably not choose to
engrave other people's music for personal satisfaction.
I appreciate all the opinions I've been given, but they do make the whole
idea seem less practical for my own situation. What suggested it to me was a
friend of mine who did it 15 years ago, very successfully (it paid for a house
he bought on the Greek island of Tinos) - but maybe conditions have changed
since then, and, with more composers nowadays using music software for their
scores and parts and submitting them directly to publishers, I guess engraving
as a separate occupation must be getting squeezed out of the market.
Regards,
Michael Edwards.
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