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God - you have to CREATE AN ACCOUNT with those <b>shoot</b>s to buy it?
Anybody got a second-hand one?
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Okay, problem solved. I know someone who's already signed up with them and he can get it for me.
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Amazon's invoice for this says it's being printed in the US - why? Surely it can be printed in the UK? (lulu prints locally).
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Mine arrived, and while it's great to have it all, there are some problems.
Something odd happened in binding - the top edge has been squashed along a band an inch wide. I've handled vast numbers of books of all periods and
price bands and never seen that before. Nothing torn or illegible, it just looks weird. No conventional publisher would try to sell something like
that.
There are no editorial notes, not even a list of sources. Could Jonathan post them here?
Most seriously, the typesetting is really bad. Probably done with a very inflexible software package. Inter-staff spacing is usually far too much,
wasting page area with pointless whitespace. While the notation is too small for easy readability. Some lines are squashed up, some pieces are spread
over too many pages making for unnecessary page turns, and some pieces are printed sideways for no reason I can see. I can get much better print and
layout quality with freeware, for music of similar scale - unfortunately I can't do microtones or I'd just reset Jonathan's book myself.
The only other print on demand book I've ever bought was Eric Ederer's "Makam and Beyond", from lulu.com - substantially bigger, cheaper and better
produced.
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