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I can now confirm that the 3.5mm staves are fully legible in the aforementioned study score as printed by https://www.doxdirect.com/ (which was done very cheaply & quickly). It would not normally be suitable for a conductor's score (although I've seen conductors turn up to rehearsal with tiny miniat...

Elaine Gould gives 3.7mm as the smallest acceptable stave height for a full score; but what about a study score? Would 3.5mm be OK, in the opinion of members of this forum? I have a 320 page score which I would normally have printed in Glasgow to B4 giving a stave height of 4.3mm, but due to Covid r...

I'll add that Covid social distancing and all that can alter the orchestra layout somewhat. However, I've just watched a live-streamed operatic concert from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in which a full orchestra of 67 (there was even a contrabass trombone) were spread right across where the ...

Something very roughly like this is typical.

It varies. Usually for trumpets and trombones the first trombone and the first trumpet sit next to one another if they are spread out in a line. If trombones are behind trumpets, then the first trombone should be directly behind the first trumpet and both nearer the centre than the the second and th...

John Ruggero wrote: ↑

25 Aug 2020, 20:49

The first thing I'd ask him would be: "Now about that A sharp and those metronome indications in the Hammerklavier Sonata..."

Yes!

I think this one computer only arrangement might be the deal breaker for me. I had thought of taking up the cross-grade offer to see how I got on, but I don't think this old man would cope at all well with the potential hassle if things went awry but I didn't have in on two computers. Read on only i...

Is it possible to have Dorico running on two computers simultaneously without extra cost? I often work on two for practical reasons related to heating my house in winter &c. Or does Dorico still have restrictions in this respect?

2 is the one familiar to me. I played the cello in adolescence (until the trombone took precedence) and as far as I remember the only editions that were available in the UK in the 1950s looked like No 2. It seems identical to the Bach-Gesellschaft edition I have on my shelves here now, but because i...

Please: never ask trombones to share a stand (two copies of a double part can be OK, but is not often preferred).