an observation

[kaberett]

Quite possibly the single most noticeable difference widespread smartphone usage has made to my life in the last ten years is the bit where, when in rehearsals you reach a movement where the horns are tacet, instead of each picking up a different book or newspaper... we all just pull out our phones (unison).

Comments

[kaberett]

Actually, a lot of our repertoire is on IMSLP (as an org the orchestra doesn't have heaps of money, so "stuff that can be borrowed from a library or printed out cheaply" is A Significant Concern). NEVERTHELESS you are quite right about pencils etc, so we only tend to work from phone/tablet displays of IMSLP downloads when we've screwed up and not managed to print/bring all the parts for all the instruments present...

[batrachian]

Ooh that is a lovely resource that I was previously completely unaware of! Nifty.