Carl Dershem wrote:
John Bell wrote:
Computers arrived. One of the first problems I encountered then was that players, given beautifully printed parts, couldn't believe that there was a wrong note there -- it was printed as F# so it must be F#. Some composers and arrangers found that using the Jazz or Inkpen font ameliorated this situation. Players seeing the handwritten font no longer felt that their parts had somehow been authorised by a superior body.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that pulls their hair out when they run across this. "It looks so professional, it MUST be right!" when the parts make no sense at all...
I used to work for a music store where the invoices were all either hand-written or typed manually, and they would get ignored for long times. The owner bought a word-processor and the manager of the music department figured out how to get calculations done and came up with an invoice form and began doing regular statements which looked professional. The invoices started being paid so quickly, it was really amusing.
I wonder where this "the machine can't be wrong" mind-set came from -- I was never actively taught it that I can remember.
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