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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
With printed music, you can open it out and see at least 2 pages at once. Not so with a digital one. It would almost have to have a foot control or something to turn pages to be useful.
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There's no reason why a digital music stand couldn't eventually be big enough for two pages, as the technology gets cheaper over time.
If the pages were touch-enabled you could swipe forward and backward more easily than with paper music (we've all knocked the parts off the stand, now, haven't we?).
A foot control would work too, although I tend to tap my foot with certain genres of music...
There are loads of other advantages... you wouldn't need a couple of pegs to hold the music in place when playing outdoors... the conductor or band leader could annotate the score and the annotations could appear on the relevant parts... in rehearsal you could select a difficult passage and get it played for you by the stand itself, slowed down if necessary... the stand could give you a tuning note, or have an inbuilt electronic tuner... the stand could act as a metronome... the music could have a layer that you could toggle that shows fingering, breathing or bow marks...
Graham