[CanuckTodd]

First of all, as a disclaimer, I don't own one of these, don't have stock in the company, and I don't work for them. So... this isn't a sales pitch!

If you are like me, you have scraps of paper, music books, and songs all over the place. I've been playing about a year and I've got a binder stuffed with songs I want to learn some day. I thought it would be a great idea to invent an electronic sheet reader to store all of this stuff. Then I discovered someone already had! Drat! There goes my get rich quick scheme!

Has anyone tried one of these? They are pricey, but for some of the folks here who play professionally or teach it might be handy.

Here's a review:

http://www.freehandsystems.com/news/macsimum.html

Here's what they look like:

They even have a footpedal so you can move the music without touching the screen. Smart those folks.

The Page Ranking stuff from the company's website says it can hold your entire digital library. There's also a website where you can download 50,000 musical scores. (www.sunhawk.com)

Good idea?
Bad idea?

Waiting until the cloned versions hit the market in a few years?
Are there other versions or easier ways to do sort of the same thing using Powerpoint and an old laptop?

[tcliff]

Granted, it costs a couple of hundred more, but you get a full blown computer in the process.

http://www.gateway.com/programs/conv...ph1=8773622208

[CanuckTodd]

Originally Posted by tcliff

Granted, it costs a couple of hundred more, but you get a full blown computer in the process.

http://www.gateway.com/programs/conv...ph1=8773622208

Hmmm.... I suppose this computer could solve part of the problem, storing your music files, but the other thing actually can take sheet music and scores and scroll through. A little bit of a different animal.

It just seems a novel idea to show up at a friend's house to play and all your tunes are stored in a handy little tablet computer gizmo!