Test photo shoot for sheet music...

[Trapdoor2]

Ok, here's a test pdf. I shot this a few hours ago and have finally gotten it pared down to size. Mistakes were made...you should see the original! The cover page somehow got downsized in the xfer...but it prints out fullsize here.

So, take a look at it and tell me if this is a usable start. The next gen will be framed much closer to the music, so it will print out a bit larger on a given paper size.

I have to figure out how to do this more efficiently. My rig requires too much stooping over and too much time positioning the sheet (esp. considering the quantity of individual shots required). My wife has promised her sewing table (unused since time immemorial), which should help with the stooping over and I've ordered a remote cable-release which will keep my hands off the camera. I think I may buy a cheap small-screen TV to act as a monitor as the camera can be plugged right in. If I had a laptop, I could plug the camera into it and control it via the PC...but I don't.

Let me know what you think.

[Adam]

Hi Marc:

Quick question: Using Queen City Waltz as an example, I'm wondering how you would file that song? If you were filing it under an author would you use Gad Robinson or B.A. Bloomey? Or perhaps list it under each?

Would Robinson be considered the tune's arranger and Bloomey the composer?

I'm confounded as to which direction to go on something like this, especially given that the cover sheet is titled "Gad Robinson's ORIGINAL solos ... "

Just curious on your (and others') thoughts on the matter,
Thanks,
Adam

[Trapdoor2]

Yah, it is a bit looney. Ol' Gad may not have had a single contribution to the collection. I suspect in this case, "original" means the tunes are original to the banjo and thus not "arrangements" of popular tunes.

Unless someone can tell us that Gad was writing under a nom-de-plume, Mr. Bloomey ought to get composing credit. And, while it is certainly possible that Ol' Gad had a hand in arranging it, he is not credited...the "arranger" field should be blank. So, I would list Gad as publisher/copyright holder and Bloomey as composer. You might add a field that contains the 'collection title', "Gad Robinsons Original Solos", so that should we find more of them (I think I have one or two more) they can be tied together in the database. Same goes for "Humming Bird Polka", it should have fields for Publisher, copyright and collection title ("BANJO").

These are just my thoughts on this, of course...

There are many collections like this, Walter Jacobs published a bunch as did A.A. Babb, Lansing, Huntley, Stewart, J.A.Turner, Ellis, etc., etc.