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Apart from legal considerations, one very simple, spontaneous question arises : why did they open such a site ? Just for saying : "look how many beautiful and rare scores we have" ? Look at , but you can't download or even copy a readable page format ! Personally I consider that site as an...

There is still one method, less expensive, and probably not so time consuming as one can imagine : rescan the pdfs after having used the usual adobe image editors.

Another issue about cleaning. I usually work with Quite Imposing software in order to cancel dust signs, watermarks and so on from a document/score. But a trace of what is deleted is still visible scrolling the pages and in my experience those traces almost disappear only when the Acrobat optimizati...

La possibilità di fotografare è oramai molto ridotta. Ad esempio a Milano hanno vietato anche quella da almeno 6 mesi. La scansione di manoscritti e opere rare non è del tutto ignorata però. In questi ultimi anni Internet culturale ha messo on lilne un quantitativo enorme di partiture manoscritte e/...

Il problema di Bottesini si estende a migliaia di altri compositori le cui opere giacciono dimenticate e infruttuose nelle varie biblioteche. In Italia, purtroppo, valgono spesso le regole di gelosie e concorrenze tra biblioteche e conservatori e penso non si arriverà velocemente a quanto mi sto ado...

After having contributed for a long time (since 1999) to feed internet music archives, I feel obliged now to launch a more comprehensive "hunt" for achieving more complete results, and I believe that this project can be hosted and supported only by IMSLP and its most "professional&quo...

When I uploaded a lot of Clementi's scores I was very careful to follow Tyson's thematic catalogue. I'm not responsible for further wrong address links that were made by IMSLP administrators !