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From: kelpie@nwnexus.WA.COM (Anthony C. Garland)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: public domain music notation sw?
Keywords: free, simple
Message-ID: <422@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 90 05:08:28 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.; Seattle, WA
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Are there any public-domain programs which facilitate writing
(fairly simple) music notation and printing it to a laser printer?
I expect to eventually have to pay good money to do advanced stuff,
but I'm just looking for something simple to get started with.

Also, has anyone seen ANY music notation packages which support
tablature (ala guitar in non-standard tuning) to any extent?  Last,
but not least, are there notation programs which can read or produce
files in some sort of semi-standard format (so that a person could write
an application to convert tablature into a valid input file for automatic
display in standard music format)?

	- Tony Garland
	  kelpie@nwnexus.wa.com