Yes, I sprang for a rather pricey but production-grade scanner that can do both flatbed and auto-feed of up to 11 x 17 pages. these "Motifs" are the shortest silent film cues I've ever found, and might make nice ring tones Here is a sample of a piece from a different collection scanned in this way. since having the files at a resolution and page size that matches my printer is attractive. I may look further to see if I can turn on scaling somehow. My scanner doesn't seem to want to let me do scaling, so I'm planning to set the size of the PDF file at the size of the original (usually either 7 x 10 or 10 x 12), and I can use "scale to fit" when I print pieces I need to my laser printer. High-resolution grayscale and color slow down printing considerably, and may add half-toning artifacts that I don't want. I'm planning to scan black-and-white at 600 dpi. The original collection has serial numbers that I could use instead, but I think the title of the piece is more evocative and useful. If there are catalog numbers included in the title ( Agitato No. ( Serenade or Dramatic Tension, for instance, show up a lot). The file will be named with the title of the piece, adding a number (or the composer?) if there are multiple pieces with the same name. PDF seems to be a pretty stable format, and is likely to be usable for decades. If one publication has multiple pieces, I'll make separate files for each. I plan to scan each piece, with all of its instrumental parts, into a single PDF file.I thought I'd put out my my plan, in case anyone who has done this before has advice before it's too late to change plans. These scans will be used for scoring films, and I'll only print out the pieces and parts that I need as I compile new film scores. The originals will be going to an archive. I'm starting a huge project of scanning a collection of several thousand "photoplay music" arrangements, since I really don't have room for more filing cabinets of paper copies.
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