On 3/29/2012 1:49 PM, Paul Hayden wrote: > 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.
I had to repair a clarinet (non-electric) where the performer had gotten the swab stuck in the middle of his recital and the performance had to wait until a friend of his had gone to get his clarinet and returned so the music could go on. Electronics have no lock on accidents. :-) > > The other involved a pianist whose iPad crashed just before a > performance. Much gnashing of teeth until it successfully rebooted. > When I use my iPad in a performance, I turn it on, get ForScore (my music reading app) started, get the file up on the screen long before I need to be on stage. I also keep the screen rotation lock on so that as the iPad gets moved around before I go on stage the display won't change. > 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! > Still lots can go wrong (see my example #1 above) -- broken strings on a violin in a solo recital so there's no concertmaster to hand the soloist a replacement violin, music getting turned too quickly or over-zealously and flying off the stand, french horn strings breaking, and on and on. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
