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From: brownd@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu (David H. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Finale
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Date: 25 Apr 91 15:45:24 GMT
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In article <12680156095017@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE> CONS.ELF@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE (Ake Eldberg) writes:
>Hi out there. My office has been looking for a music editor
>for our IBM 386SX and it looks like Finale is the thing to
>buy. The price of this software here in Sweden is $1,600
>which is *pretty expensive*. I have heard that you can get
>software considerably cheaper in the USA. Can anyone give
>me a current price quotation?

Sure. I've heard $1000. That's pretty expensive for us, too.

>I would also appreciate it if you know of a retail place
>to buy it, preferably in the Los Angeles/Orange County 
>area, since I'll probably be going there in august.

Well, I'm in Minnesota, but so is Coda. Their telephone number
is (612) 854-1288 for customer support.

>Myself, I use a Macintosh and recently tried out Encore,
>which is a similar application. But Finale looks better.

I'd be inclined to agree, having seen only ads for Encore.
There's not much you can't do with Finale. And it includes
two type-1 PostScript fonts.

By the way, if you don't need to do almost anything, you might
consider MusicProse from Coda. It's a younger sibling of Finale.
It will handle 32 staves, and includes most of the features of
Finale-- including the fonts. It's current price is $399 (ac-
cording to Coda's newsletter).

>Ake Eldberg
>cons.elf@aida.csd.uu.se

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