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


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