Binding the downloaded pages??

[cmg]

Sorry for this totally stupid question, but I'm new to these downloaded pages.   

What's the preferred way to bind them into a score?  Like taping them onto blank pages and using a ring binder?  Hiring a fulltime page-turner who lives with you and sleeps in the servants' quarters?  Ideas, please. 

[pianowolfi]

  Hiring a fulltime page-turner who lives with you and sleeps in the servants' quarters?  Ideas, please. 

Yes that is the ideal solution lol To me there is just one way: learn them by heart asap.

[rach n bach]

A)  Memorize off of the computer screen.  No need to print. 

B)  Hire servant.  Sounds great to me.

C)  Get one of those fancy tablet PC's and use it on your piano as a PDF reader.

 

D) I just use these --> https://www.avery.com/us/Main?action=product.HierarchyList&node=10211113&catalogcode=WEB01  they are a bit expensive, but you can find cheeper ones if you look around.

[cmg]

Yes that is the ideal solution lol To me there is just one way: learn them by heart asap.

*groans* I was afraid that was going to be the best solution.  

Thanks, pianowolfi, but if I go to all of the trouble to memorize my latest repertoire, you've got to fly me over there for a recital.  I'll waive my fee, if you pay the plane fare.  (First class, of course.)

[cmg]

D) I just use these --> https://www.avery.com/us/Main?action=product.HierarchyList&node=10211113&catalogcode=WEB01  they are a bit expensive, but you can find cheeper ones if you look around.

Now we're talkin'!  Thanks r&b.

Forget that recital, pianowolfi.  I'll be tied up mounting pages.  (no pun, btw, so let it go.)

[rach n bach]

No problem!  Have fun.   One of the other nice perks about using these is that it is very, very difficult to tear the pages... and in addition, if people try to put thier annoying pencil marks on your music.. viola, they wipe right off.

RnB

[mad_max2024]

Hiring a fulltime page-turner who lives with you and sleeps in the servants' quarters? 

If it's female, pretty and has a nice figure I would go with that one...
I'd probably start sleeping in the servants' quarters as well

[pianowolfi]

*groans* I was afraid that was going to be the best solution. 

Thanks, pianowolfi, but if I go to all of the trouble to memorize my latest repertoire,

I thought repertoire should be memorized anyway?  lol *runs and hides*

[cmg]

I thought repertoire should be memorized anyway?  lol *runs and hides*

Nailed me on that one!  Okay, okay, you're right, but my electrifying sightreading skills actually are a hindrance to memorizing (he said boastfully).   

[cmg]

If it's female, pretty and has a nice figure I would go with that one...
I'd probably start sleeping in the servants' quarters as well

No need to humble myself, Max:  I have a harem attached to the servants' quarters. 

[rachmad]

Invest in a Plastic-Comb Binder Machine, its well worth the cost, small ones are very cheap but punch holes in less pages at a time. You can buy the size combs to suit the number of pages and you have a nice book and the pages all turn flat unlike other binding methods. You can buy some transparent sheets and card to make the book stiffer and to protect the book from wear.

The most practical solution for large numbers of sheets is to use your laptop as a screen sitting on the piano or your LCD screen from your main computer.

[Bob]

I think those page binders -- the plastic combs on the side -- cost about a grand. Ouch!

Tape will dry up eventually. 

A 3 ring binder seems just as easy and clean as a (semi) professional binder.

I have seen a foot pedal for the computer that will turn pages in pdf file.  That sounded pretty interesting.  About $100 I think.

Otherwise, I was just that memorizing is probably not a bad idea.

[rachmad]

The Plastic Comb Binders I have seen are around $50 for a cheap one, they would do the job and are available in most chain stationery stores, of course you can pay a lot more, the one I purchased was around $500, but then I considered it well worth it. Once you have it you will find it so useful, the only problem I have had is it is just so quick, easy and cheap to print and comb-bind yet one more album of music, one can get quite impulsive about it, we are spoilt for easy access and large choice of music these days...

[theblob]

What's the advantage of a comb binding over ring binding?

[Bob]

It's a step up for binding.  Lots of little "teeth" connecting the pages.  It looks nicer.  The three ring binder is a binder (for looks) and it puts all the pressure on those three holes in the paper.  Although it must protect the paper a little more than the comb.  Those combs can crack though and I hate how the edges can lose a  few teeth. 

My bigger concern would be the size of the notes on 8x11.5 paper in USA. 

And leaving the pages separate means you can set a few pages side by side and don't have to flip pages.  Although you could just take pages out of the three ring binder too.