Novato Music Press is now selling over 20,000 pieces of sheet music for the Kindle, allowing budding Rachmaninoffs and Wiggles to download and play music right off of their DXen. The sheet music starts at $3.
Astute readers will not that this probably isn’t a great idea for standard Kindles as the screen is a titch to small for active sheet musicry. However, the simple fact you can buy Symphony No. 9 in C Major for about $4 should make those skinny musicians in tank tops and gym shorts who wander the halls of major concert halls waiting to “Jump into the pit” while yelling “I got next” squeal with delight.
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John Biggs
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July 10, 2009
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Ok now THAT makes me want a Kindle! I left most of my sheet music at my parents’ when I moved out because I had no space for it. You are right about the screen size though, it would make it difficult to read sheet music. I still think sheet music will sell well on the Kindle.
If only the kindle had a microphone and a proper SDK. Could make a sheet music app that actually listened to what was being played and ‘turned’ the pages accordingly.
Of course, we’ll never see the Hal Leonard catalogue on there. Hal Leonard is effectively terrified of any sort of technological advancement that could even remotely effect their current dinosaur of a business model.
They avoided MusicWriter’s now-defunct print on demand Notestation like the plague (which didn’t fail because it was a bad product, but instead because of the company’s excessive R&D spending. The product was *awesome*), and I bet they’ll avoid this one too.
Which is idiotic. As local music stores fold (as many have — the instrument business isn’t anything like it used to be), sheet music is going to be harder and harder to sell through the current retail system. Hal Leonard has needed to join the digital age for quite some time… and they probably never will.
…not that I have an opinion on the matter or anything. :P
man that makes me want to trade in my kindle 2 for the DX. I would lover to have that thing to red everything without having the kindle 2 in my face to read. Now they have sheet music, I wonder what’s going tobe next on the Kinde DX/2? Music Lyrics? Ability to write stories? I guess we’ll have to wait and see. http://ziggytek.com/
Gaby, if you want a better viewer for digital sheet music, check out Freehand Systems’ MusicPad Pro Plus – http://www.freehandsystems.com/
You can make notations, highlight in different colors, turn pages with an optional footpedal, etc. Lots of great features!
Thanks, I’ll check it out :D
Or, if you’re looking to buy and print pretty much any sheet music you’re looking for, just go to http://www.musicnotes.com – They have licenses with just every major publisher. On PC you also can download the file and learn it from the interactive sheet music.
For those of you living in the UK who need something larger than a Kindle we sell the MusicPad Pro Plus 12.1″ diagonal touch screen with over 130,000 scores available to purchase and download. Please visit our website.
the MusicPad was great when it came out, but is definitely showing it’s age. I think the upcoming Paper Logic reader and the rumored Apple Tablet will probably drive it into extinction unless Freehand updates both their hw and sw