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

[thetubameister@roadrunner.com]

It's great that it has those parts... but I've seen it and the engraving is distractingly... well (hoping not to offend anyone)... not up to standard.

J.c.S.

---- Stan Brager <sbrager at verizon.net> wrote: 
> 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
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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