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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1but where the camera is employed, the films are all that it is necessary to retain.
33. Present Music Typography
5A font of music type consists of about four hundred different characters. So it takes a skilled worker to combine the type representing clefs, lines, note heads and stems, etc. to form a correct representation.
7The compositor first estimates the amount of music which will go into one line and the number of lines to a page. He then sets five lines for the staff, places the various characters for the music notation, and adds the words like ordinary reading matter except that they are spaced for each syllable to come beneath the note to which it is to be sung.
9When all the type is set and the spaces are filled in with blank "quads," it is "locked up" in an iron frame or "chase" for a page of music. A rough print or proof is pulled and any necessary corrections are made.
11The first improvement after printing directly from type was the art of stereotyping, invented about 1725, not generally used until 1810, and first introduced into America about 1813.4 In this a metal composition, largely lead, is poured into the mould or impression made in the papier-maché and gives an exact counterpart of the type. This gave a great impetus to music book printing of all kinds because it saved the expense of resetting a book for a later edition and it was no longer necessary to keep the type standing or wear it out.
13Electrotyping, introduced about 1840, has now superseded stereotyping. Through electrolysis a wax mould of the type is coated with copper. When this "shell" is sufficiently thick it is removed, backed up with type metal for thickness and strength, beaten to correct any unevenness on the face and shaved to standard thickness.
15The typographic method permits the use of many different sizes of characters and styles of text type, and is useful where there is much printing interspersed with music as in text books. The printing is done on ordinary presses.
174 F. H. Gilson Company. Music Book Printing p. 6.
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