On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
What do folks normally do? Because I do exclusively new music, it's not
like I'm a jealous guardian of the original files. I feel like they
belong
with the composer. On the other hand, I'm not enthused about offering
ongoing help in this way, even though this is an occasional but
faithful
engraving client.
I am not jealous of my Finale files either, and I'm happy to provide
them if a client asks. (My main client for many years was a publisher
who actually sells the Finale files, so it's not as if someone can't
lift all my templates any time they want to.)
Most of my clients aren't interested. The sort of people who ask me to
do their engraving are the usually the sort who don't want to have
anything to do with the Finale files.
One regular client does always ask for the Finale files, and I
dutifully send them along, but I know she never even looks at them.
She only wants them because she wants to be able to offer them to the
next person she hires, if ever I should become unavailable. But I know
for certain that she'll always come to me first.
One time I was unavailable, and she had someone else do a new piece.
He did a sloppy job of it, and several months later she asked me to fix
it up nice. She offered me the file she had gotten from the other guy,
but I didn't even want it. It was easier and cleaner to just redo it
from scratch from his printed page.
mdl
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