Subject: Re: Poor binding. Was Copying music for auditions
From: Jessica
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
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Right on - behold the power of the LIST!

Thanks and let us know how your mission goes!
Jessica


on 1/13/00 1:57 AM, colin.reed-at-eidosnet.co.uk wrote:

> I can understand this frustration. I recently bought Bellini "15 Compositioni
> da Camera" published by Ricordi. The binding is appalling, especially for
> such a thin book. I should perhaps explain that my day job is working for an
> adhesives company, and one of our biggest business areas is selling
> bookbinding adhesives. I am not aware of us selling to any of the binders
> that do the work for major music publishers, but this has set me on some sort
> of mission. I am in contact with our Italian office who I have instructed to
> go and sell decent adhesives to Ricordi. With any luck, my next Ricordi score
> should stay open on the piano music stand. With any luck we can persuade
> these binders that music needs to stay open, and will not be held open. It is
> possible to bind paper so that it will lay flat, but it is a more expensive
> and slower process. Given the price that we have to pay for music anyway, I
> think we should expect a higher quality.