Re: the engraving video >talent & cash was being tossed into old music again -- not to mention, ye >gads, working with lead with bare hands and no face mask!
>I caught that mention of lead, too. Whatever happened to using copper? Ted Ross (The Art of Music Engraving & Processing, p. 15) refers to "The pewter plate (commonly called "tin") which is used in this type of engraving, consists of antimony, lead, and tin; and has many advantages over early plates made solely of either zinc or copper (the more tin there is in the plate, the sharper the printed work will be.)" Gamble (Music Engraving and Printing) devotes a 7-page chapter to "Production of Engraved Music - the Pewter Plates", including variations in the formula for the alloy, with an interesting 1923 perspective. Nick Dr Nick Carter, Owner, npc Imaging, 2228 Magowan Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95405 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.npcimaging.com Tel/fax: +1 (707) 573 9361 President, North Bay Electric Auto Association Solectria EV owner. "Spare the air every day - drive electric!" ************************************************************** ** New digital Beethoven edition (9,000+ pages) & 1911 Grove! ** ** CoachMe - Complete Opera/Soloist Roles on audio CD ** ** 64 CD sheet music titles: thousands of pages from $9.95! ** ** Ted Ross and Stiller Handbook on CD-ROM ** ** Books by Powell, Stone, etc. Many Dover scores in stock ** ************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
