IMSLP - International Music Score Library Project

Originally Posted by Saiming

I get the majority of my sheet music from there

Likewise

But there still remains something that I still don't understand. IMSLP does not break any legal matters since the uploaders check when the score was published and that there must be x amount of years that has gone before one can 'spread' them. What puzzles me is:

Don't other publishers loose a crap load of money? I mean the music doesn't change, it is not like the notes change it is practically the same score but different publishers. So don't publishers loose a lot of money although this act is 100% legal?

Yes.

Originally Posted by Mark

Yes.

Well tally ho, that is bally good isn't it

I'm extremely happy the Rite of Spring's there.

Originally Posted by Mark

Yes.

Actually, most of the stuff I find on there that I actually want to perform I end up buying anyways. There isn't much for oboe on there, and the stuff that I want to perform on piano that is one there, when I print it off, the paper is flimsy and doesn't stand up well on a piano. I usually have to go out and buy a book with the piece in it, or a published version of the piece on sturdy manuscript paper material stuff so it isn't falling off into my face every 10 seconds.

Get some better paper...

...or print on card

Or put it in a three ring binder, I have printed off tons of music from various things, and it's pretty much all in a couple of binders.

Originally Posted by bob_the_sane

Get some better paper...

Originally Posted by Mark

...or print on card

Originally Posted by violinfiddler

Or put it in a three ring binder, I have printed off tons of music from various things, and it's pretty much all in a couple of binders.

Yupyup. I don't know where you get your paper or your music stands, but I've never had a single problem.