On 1/25/05 4:30 PM, "Mark D Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the other hand, I don't know if that's really fair, since I'm sure > to some extent it's the publisher's decision not to pay for quality > work. And sometimes (which was certainly the case with one publisher for whom I did work) the publisher, in adding their own stuff to the score, screws up the work that the engraver did. I know of one score where the finished published product and what I sent the publisher were two very different entities. > Still, engravers with professional pride would refuse to let > their name go on such shoddy product, I wish I could have refused with the score I mentioned above; unfortunately, I didn't see the finished product until a colleague had actually bought the score a year or so later for a production. > in which case maybe it becomes a > sign of quality for a publisher to be able to hire engravers who are > willing to sign their work. > > mdl > I'm with you on that -- like I mentioned in another post, I'm not a full-time professional engraver, but I still have enough pride in the work I do that I don't want crap out there with my name on it. -- Mike _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
