I have no problem with the use of iPads in place of sheet music. However, I 
have experienced two mishaps recently involving iPads. In one performance, the 
(good) performer got momentarily flustered and flubbed the foot pedal page turn 
on his iPad. The performance had to stop and restart. 

The other involved a pianist whose iPad crashed just before a performance. Much 
gnashing of teeth until it successfully rebooted. 

Having worked with technology for most of my life, I guess I know how much can 
go wrong. There's not much wind to blow away sheet music in a concert hall!

Paul Hayden



On Wed, 28 Mar, David Froom wrote:

I think we'll come to a time fairly soon when most performers will have an 
iPad-like device with a full library.  The software out there now already 
allows annotations, has good foot-pedal page turners. But I personally still 
REALLY like paper.  Even when I get something for quick study from imslp.org, 
if I want to do anything serious with it, I print and bind it on nice, oversize 
paper and staple bind.





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