Sharing this info for anyone as ignorant as me about this option.
Just had 2 medium size music books spiral bound for less than $7. A local Office Depot shaved the paperback binding and installed spiral binding. No more hassle keeping books open.
Sharing this info for anyone as ignorant as me about this option.
Just had 2 medium size music books spiral bound for less than $7. A local Office Depot shaved the paperback binding and installed spiral binding. No more hassle keeping books open.
I do this all the time, works great.
Yep, all my sheet music goes in those plastic sheeted spiral bound folders - just makes page turning and keeping pages open in the right place so much better. My wife fbuys and uses these folders for her recipes - so as my music collection builds up i remove the recipes that aren't much good to be able to steal a folder and she replaces the folder and fills it with recipes again - it is a system that works well.
Cheers
Chris
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Weber Sage octave - sold
I have not had any music spiral bound, but I often take music books apart, punch holes in the pages and put them in three-ring binders. That has worked well for me with piano music as well as mandolin music. It also gives me the option to move the music around in the binder. I can put the music I am working on up front, yet move it back where it belongs later on when I go on to other pieces. If I am taking music somewhere with me, I can put just the pieces I want to take in a small three-ring binder for easy travel, yet put them back in their usual binder when I return home. Works for me anyway.
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I figure this will work great when first dealing with new books. As i decide what tunes I like, I scan those, put as many on a single page as will fit, and then put in day-day working binder.
I've had a lot of my books sprial bound.
And I know it's probably wrong, but I have bought some old mandolin books that had pretty sad spines and did it to them also.
But hey, I bought them to use them!
1919 Gibson A3
1920 Gibson A2
1937 Gibson K1 Mandocello
2015 Eastman Bowlback
This is a great way to protect your music and facilitate easier reading on your music stand. I have all my method books/collections spiral bound by Kinkos. I also ask Kinkos to bind them with a black heavy stock cover and back. My Sibelius manual is spiral bound and lays open next to my computer for convenient reference.
Using the 3 ring binder for sheet music is a great idea as well, and is common practice among singers.
Bill
I have had a few books spiral bound, esp ones that are more than 100 pages... they just don't lay flat and open so you can use them. I have a few candidates waiting for me to do that including volumes 2 and 3 of the big choro white tunes books.
Jim
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
I've been using the clear plastic sleeves and a three-ring binder for a lot of my loose music. The only caveate is they glare something awful if your light source is behind (or at the side of) you.
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
The plastic sleeves are find for the loose stuff but for actual performance music I find I need to write on the paper and the plastic is a pain in rehearsal. Also I tend to tape together three sheets wide to have less page turning. For shorted pieces, not a problem.
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Lay-flat binding can make a huge difference is making a music book usable and stable on the music stand or on the table.
Be aware the "SPIRAL" binding means different things in different venues. Around here, if you want the kind of continous (spiral) binding as shown on Jack's example above, you need to request "COIL" binding. At Kinko's, Copy Central, and most other bay-area copy/binding houses, requesting a "spiral" binding can result in what is also called "comb" binding--little rectangular holes with a piece of flat plastic and teeth that curl around to grip the pages. It works pretty well--and it easier to edit if you want to dump some pages--but it isn't as stable or attractive as a continuous plastic or metal coil.
There's also wire binding and Pro-Click styles which can work well, too.
Just one guy's opinion
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Yes, at Kinko's I definitely ask for "coil" binding. I detest the comb stuff.
The first man who whistled
thought he had a wren in his mouth.
He went around all day
with his lips puckered,
afraid to swallow.
--"The First" by Wendell Berry
Guess I got lucky and got the coil without even asking for it.
That's the logical name for it, Bob, since the spine is a spiral. Not sure why some shops insist on calling the comb-style "spiral," since there's no spiral involved. If in doubt, ask them to show you the binding material and then choose.
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We do our own spiral binding with this;
http://www.binditall.com/Products.html
Don't be put off by the pink color its made for the scrapbook crowd.
I'm in the Bob group. I use my trusty three hole puncher and put music in binders. The "Fiddler's Fake Book" has a spiral binding, but it's huge and was a total pain. It's now three holed and tunes live in various binders.
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1923 Gibson A jr Paddlehead mandolin
Newish Muddy M-4 Mandolin
New Deering Goodtime Special open back 17 Fret Tenor Banjo
I like to keep my books intact. I have enough trouble finding things than to dissemble them and put them in separate binders. If I want to keep them thematic (solos, duets, mandolin & guitar, etc.) then I photocopy and put them in binders.
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
I bought a gizmo from Staples that I use. It gives a spiral that can easily be taken apart (not that I can recall ever taking a book apart, but if I wanted to, I could).
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