Am Sonntag, 14. September 2014, 19:28:24 schrieb Brett McCoy:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Bob van der Poel <bob@mellowood.ca> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold@arnoldarts.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:39:45 -0700 Bob van der Poel <bob@mellowood.ca>
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> >> > <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > There only is one thing we can share all over the world, recorded in
> >> > > different decades: analog tapes
> >> >
> >> > Well, not quite. Sheet music is quite playable after many centuries.
> >> > And no special machines are needed :)
> >>
> >> I think the people and orchestras hunting down historic instruments to
> >> recreate the original setting for certain pieces will disagree with you
> >> on this one.
> >>
> >
> > Well, I did say this with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek while
> > transcribing some Haydn. But, despite the fact that my little group will
> > be playing it with totally different instruments, etc. ... I'm sure that
> > Papa would recognize his tune. My point is that a piece of paper is very
> > "archival" ... a piece of tape or a shiny plastic disk in 100 or 200 years?
> >
>
> Case in point... some lute tablature from the late 1500s...
>
> http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS410_003
>
>
I for one can read that, even play sightreading right away from such a tablature, and transcribing it to a digital format (abctab or Wayne Cripps' lutetab for example) would typically take a couple of hours per piece, and give the possibility to create a midi file or even some score representation by the according interpreter or processing cli app.
Anyway, AFAIK museums, collections or archives of manuscripts have to put substantial amounts of work in conserving manuscripts, as they usually start to suffer from "Tintenfraß" (ink corrosion) after a few centuries.
But, isn't this getting slightly OT ?
Edgar
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