August 2015
Monthly Archive
Why I won’t buy Chums anytime soon
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 31 Aug 2015 | Tagged as: personal
I won’t be buying Chums eyewear retainers anytime soon.
1000m above the ground in my paraglider is no place for my dark glasses to fall off. My prescription dark glasses, you see, without which I can barely make out anything. So, I relied on my Chums eyewear retainer on my dark glasses. Imagine my dismay when I pulled them out of my helmet bag recently, and saw this: Continue Reading »
Why revisable formats matter for our digital scores
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 13 Aug 2015 | Tagged as: culture, Keyboard Philharmonic, music
The Keyboard Philharmonic overview mentions “revisable, symbolic digital notation formats” for music scores. Sometimes people ask if projects like the Internet Music Score Library/Petrucci Project aren’t already putting music scores into “digital” form. Perhaps a clarification will help. Yes, the IMSLP and many other worthy projects are offering music scores in “digital” formats — but not in “revisable digital notation” formats. The difference matters. Continue Reading »