At 2:30 PM -0800 12/9/10, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
On Dec 9, 2010, at 1:54 PM, John Howell wrote:
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Item: Time spent "stuffing" the iPads
compared with time to stuff the orchestra
folders. They'd have to be done one at a time
if there is no networking, and if there IS
networking the number of wrong things that can
be done by a non-computer expert increases.
Hence why you have your Orchestra's librarian do it.........
In community music the librarians are part-time
volunteer help who have day jobs or families, and
probably play in the ensemble as well, and they
will NOT embrace new demands on their time. They
are NOT full-time professionals on salary.
True, public domain stuff would be first. I
suppose if music companies embraced the
technology, they could have applications that
could check to see if things are licensed
correctly.
In case you haven't noticed, music companies
don't embrace new technology until it starts
saving them money. There are lots of things that
COULD be done, but won't be. That's all I'm
trying to point out.
Assuming that most stuff is already digital (as
most everything seems to have a new edition out
that is computer engraved) the scanning thing is
sorta a moot point.
The "most everything" is digital suggests that
you don't have to deal with orchestral editions
on a daily basis. The Neue Bach Ausgabe? The
New Mozart Edition? Not likely, and Bärenreiter
is still making back their up-front costs.
I can't speak to your networking problems. There
really isn't any magic involved, just following
directions.
Sure, anything is easy after you learn how. But
it's fascinating that computers keep asking setup
question that not only I can't answer, I can't
even understand the questions!
And I would question your "majority of the
population over 40 don't even own a computer"
statement. You pulled that out of.....where?
Thin air, of course. By definition everyone on
this list is reasonably computer literate, and
quite a few are indeed experts. So that means
everyone in the population is similarly gifted?
Not in my experience, and not with older people
although younger treat it as if it had always
existed. It used to be that people couldn't
program their TV remotes. (After all, it's just
following directions!) Now it's their cellphones.
PDF is a good format to start, it works on
everything, and things display like they are
supposed to display. Assuming that an Orchestra
did invest in an all electronic setup, you' d
have a someone handle the music and the putting
it on the devices part of it.
Agreed. But there are a lot of "ifs" in there.
But I don't see this as a BIG TIME need. I mean,
have you USED something like an iPad? It's
simple.
I'm sure it is--for the jobs it's designed to do.
So were the original cellphones. Now they think
they're hand-held computers (which they actually
are). The new Consumer Reports has a report on
the new generation of phones. I look forward to
reading it. In the meantime my phone is just a
phone, and that's all I want it to be. But no, I
haven't used an iPad. I don't think it does
anything I want to do. I don't buy new
technology just because it's new.
Thanks for the discussion. I suspect that we'll
be seeing music on iPads a lot sooner than I
think, but a lot later than you do.
John
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John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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of jazz musicians.
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