Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Mein Gott ... I'm just remembering my MA Thesis, which composed in 1965 or so, and consists of 87 pages of score for 22 wind instruments. I, of course, hand copied the thing using india ink on vellum from Cameo Music in Hollywood, working 8 hours per day and averaging 4 pages of MS each day. I still have an indentation on my right index finger! Just for fun, and to see what it really sounds like (more or less), I've been transcribing the first movement to Fin06/GPO. I'm still averaging about 4 pages per day, 'cause that's about all I can stand of it, but it only takes about an hour to do that much. Times have certainly changed.
Another reason I went for a performance major, and ended up with degrees in history, anthropology and psych, rather than music - those are ones you could TYPE in those days.
But I made a fair amount of money doing copy work for other music majors back in college, before any of this technology was available. (Can you imagine computerized engraving using punch cards? Eeeeeeeeek!)
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