[TPIN] Re: Sheet Music /On Approval

[lamb95stew at wideopenwest.com]

A "sign of the times" is that Les and his pals (not to pick on them, just a
generational reference) didn't have access to high quality digital copiers, too...

Publishers SHOULD, however, provide sample excerpts via PDF on their websites. Just
like the good folks at StewMuse do.  :-)

Michael Stewart, DMA
http://www.stewmuse.com/SM-Home.html

The answer is... AIR!
> Subject: [TPIN] Re: Sheet Music /On Approval
> 
> >
> > I agree with Jim Olcott:
> > " For any retailer of sheet music, to
> > send out a piece "on approval" is rough..."
> >
> > It's another sign of the times. As a young trumpet student in the PA 
> > hills, I received, monthly, a large box of music on approval from 
> > Volkweins in Pittsburgh shipped to me at no charge as long as I returned 
> > the stuff I didn't want to buy. I read through as much as I could and sent 
> > most of it back.
> >
> > Les
> >
> As a general consumer of such stuff, I am most concerned with the level of 
> the music. In many cases, it is either too hard for me, or too simple, and 
> I won't know this without actually seeing the copy....If they can send me 
> a page of the stuff in PDF format, then I will know, and be able to 
> adequately decide whether to buy it or not.....
> 
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