Robert Patterson wrote: [snip] Kurt Stone offers excellent notation suggestions for new music. Choosing
one at random, we can dicuss the circles for notating location on a drum head (p. 222ff). An engraver would want to know how wide (in spaces) should the circle be? What width line should the circle have? How big should the "x" be? What width line should the dotted arrows have? etc., etc. Since no house has a tradition for engraving these symbols, there are no ready answers to these questions beyond individual taste: a notoriously fickle standard.
And just as importantly, no house has engraving punches ready made for such things. And with relatively few new compositions using a standardized notation set, it just isn't cost effective to have the steel punches made, which makes hand-engraving each and every such symbol mandatory -- a single page of such music would probably take 16-24 hours.
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