[Dixielandjazz] Photoscore

[Talegatorz at aol.com]

Hello Larry,

Although I don't have this program myself, my trombone player, Todd does and 
I can share some of our experiences with it. 
I had acquired some old march and concert music for our town band which was 
missing some bassoon, bass clarinet and tenor parts. I asked Todd if he could 
scan some related parts into Sibelius and make the needed parts. (For example, 
T-bone to tenor or bass to bassoon and bass clarinet.) The main problem was 
that the charts were quite old and somewhat faded. This caused Photoscore to 
read some of the notes incorrectly. Thus, it was garbage in and garbage out.
The basic process was relatively easy, but the obviously needed corrections 
took forever to ferret out and I'm sure we will find more as we work on these 
pieces with the whole band.
However, if your originals are fresh and clearly printed, you shouldn't have 
any real problems with this. 

Regards,

Gus Bloch