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Fred G. Unn wrote: ↑02 Mar 2022, 15:00 The Keaton Music Typewriter is really cool too.

Very interesting concept.

bophead wrote: ↑02 Mar 2022, 12:54 I did not know Germany has so many museums covering the craft of printing.

More pictures from Leipzig’s Museum der Druckkunst:

https://slidetodoc.com/techniken-des-mu ... museum-fr/

https://owl.museum-digital.de/singleimage?imagenr=9521

https://owl.museum-digital.de/singleimage?imagenr=9519

The origin of Schott Music in Mainz (another case for Google translate)

https://mugemir.de/erthal19/instrumente-verlag

Rather dramatic: the motto of Vienna’s engravers guild set to music

“In praise of song, in honor of art, sound chords, in a pure and noble way!”

http://www.fischerweb.at/mysite/index.p ... wahlspruch

From the same museum in Leipzig pictured in a online magazine of Germany’s biggest trade union “ver.di” / department “printing and paper” :

Detailed view of some punches

https://drupa.verdi.de/archiv/ausgaben- ... 540059119e

I did not know Germany has so many museums covering the craft of printing. Here the second picture shows a Schumann example in movable type:

https://www.druckkunst-museum.de/de/mus ... druck.html

From another museum:

Second picture shows different sizes of engraving rastrums, the tools for engraving the staff lines

https://bawue.museum-digital.de/object/1372

Yesterday I read an old thread about treble clef design in the “Notation Practice” sub-forum which made me aware of the differences in design that may occur in this regard. Looking at many examples of 19th and early 20th century sheet music on archive.org made me realize that treble clefs used to be...

Fitting into the context: picture of lithographic plates for the reproduction of sheet music originally engraved into lead plates. The plates were rather soft and would wear out soon so the main reproduction was done through lithography (and later through photomechanic processes). Alois Senefelder (...