[Trombone-l] Arban's and other thick books

[John Monroe]

What a great suggestion.  Thanks, Chris!

John Monroe
On May 14, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Chris Waage wrote:

> Just wanted to share a tip that's turned out to be very handy.    
> Over the
> years, I've had several Arban's fall apart after the spine of the book
> breaks.  I recently picked up a decent used copy and took it to one  
> of my
> local printers and had them spiral-bind it.  It cost $5 for the  
> service, but
> now I have a copy that lays flat when I open it.
>
> With smaller books, especially ones that are stapled, I had resorted  
> to
> cutting them down the middle and three-hole punching them so they'd  
> work in
> a standard notebook.  Not the ideal solution, since most music books  
> are
> larger than 8.5" x 11", but it worked ok.  Since most places charge  
> based on
> the size of the book for spiral binding, I plan to do this for  
> several more
> books in the near future.
>
> And, for the geekier of us, the spiral-bound volumes are easier to  
> scan if
> you need to put a small excerpt of an exercise into a document,  
> instead of
> having to reset the excerpt in your music software of choice.
>
> Chris
>
>
> Chris Waage, Bass Trombonist
> chris.waage at gmail.com
>
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