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

[Stan Brager]

Fortunately, the latest version of the trombone Arban's (Joe Alessi), comes
spiral bound and also contains all the sections which were omitted from the
original trombone Arban's

Stan
Stan Brager

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Waage [mailto:chris.waage at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:50 AM
> To: Trombone-L
> Subject: [Trombone-l] Arban's and other thick books
> 
> 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
>