Fellow listers; I received the following query from a colleague & would appreciate any input from the collective wisdom of the list:
*************************** As you know, the graver is the scoring tool used to create the staff lines in traditional plate engraving. I started researching what the actual graver sizes for traditional plate engraving are, which are defined only as sizes 0-8. These numbers 0-8 supposedly correspond to the major staff sizes universally accepted by "modern music engravers" (according to Ted Ross), but there is no mention of what their measurements actually are. Originally, I got the graver sizes by measuring the scorer-created staff lines printed in Ted Ross's book on page 57, but the photocopy is so bad, I had doubts as to whether these measurements are accurate. So, I asked around, and did some searching on Google, and actually got some answers! It turns out that Sibelius had researched this extensively for their early Acorn version of the application, and had defined these sizes as: Number 0 = 9.2mm Number 1 = 7.9mm Number 2 = 7.3mm Number 3 = 7.0mm Number 4 = 6.7mm Number 5 = 6.1mm Number 6 = 5.6mm Number 7 = 4.8mm Number 8 = 3.7mm There is a little bit of discrepancy, though. Here is a site which talks about these settings in Music Press: http://www.bandcmusic.com/Stage/text-basics-01003.html Take a look at the table of these sizes listed in *centipicas*. I'm assuming that is .01 of a printer's pica, which was 0.166 inch or 4.22 mm. (For convenience, PostScript rounded the definitions of point and pica to exactly 1/72 and 1/6 inch, respectively, but the original units were ever so slightly smaller.) Just to be academic, would this mean that the actual values rounded to the nearest 0.1mm are?: 9.1 7.8 7.1 6.7 6.4 6.1 5.4 4.7 3.7 If these 'centipicas' are actually 1/600 inch, the only difference it would make is that the #3 staff would round to 6.8 mm instead of 6.7 Dan Rupert _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
