Can anyone help us out, I'm afraid once again my lack of knowledge lets me down.
dd has to take some music with her to run through at the weekend and the MD has said " All music should be TAPED properly (from the top of the page to the bottom). Please note I will not accept music in plastic wallets or folders"
Please help, feel free to explain as if talking to a small child !!
I'm not a musical expert - and others might be along soon to give further insight. But, from advice I've been given in the past:
Plastic wallets can be a real nuisance as they can reflect the light or fall off the stand - and they are slippery.
I usually try to tape it so that it will fold into a concertina if it is several pages - that way it should lie reasonably flat along the piano and/or the pages can be folded as if they were in a book and turned.
The tape does need to be centred accurately along the join and the pages do need to be level so that you can fold it along the join line or lie it flat without it going off at an angle.
I would make sure that the sheets fold easily and neatly along the join when you've done it - even though the pianist is likely to lie the whole thing flat along the music stand if there is room.
so you start with the top sheet & 'turn a page' (which is actually a fold) you should see 2 sheet (pages 2 & 3), turning the next page/fold should show 4 & 5, then finally p6
If you were to concertina them then I think you would find that the 2nd and 3rd (and the 4th and 5th ) page could go back to back in the concertina and therefore turn like a book. The pianist probably wouldn't use it like that though as 6 pages will probably fit across the piano. As long as each page is foldable along the join and will lie flat against the next when folded, the pianist can decide how/where/whether to fold them.
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