Having Trouble with Old Sheet Music
It's a long story that begins with a promise I made.
I am currently interning at a historical site that deals in the history of the United States President Theodore Roosevelt. While searching the collection, I noticed that they had old sheet music which I was able to find a PDF of and convert into both TIFF, and PNG along with the original PDF. I have tried a countless different ways of turning the original into a more manageable format for use in other applications. Problem is, each way I do it hasn't ended up working, I've used countless OMR software and each have either spat the product back out at me, shaking their heads no, or have been hidden behind a paywall that stops me from saving the final product upon making it.
If anyone has any suggestions or tips to make this easier, or perhaps could do the transfer for me (since I have little knowledge about sheet music myself. I'm a musician but I am not as well versed in reading sheet music as I used to be) that would be immensely appreciated. I also would rather not spend money on this, since the museum is a non-profit, and as a college student I am not making much money either, so I haven't got $300 to put down on an OMR software that I will use once.
Thank you for your time.
~Connor
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Comments
Just create.a piano score in Musescore and start entering the notes, shouldn't take much longer than an hour or 2.
In reply to Just create.a piano score in… by Jojo-Schmitz
It has taken me 3 hours just to figure out how to get the first 4 notes even close to right, and I still don't have them right.
In reply to It has taken me 3 hours just… by Connor Marsherall
Follow my answer I just gave here and you should be able to start.
In reply to It has taken me 3 hours just… by Connor Marsherall
There are lots of ways of learning enough to get started, but maybe try this:
https://masteringmusescore.com/tutorials/your-first-score/
and then for answers to some more specific questions, try this:
https://masteringmusescore.com/go/quick-answers/
Also for more video tutorials:
https://musescore.org/en/tutorials
Spending 10-20 minutes up front learning the basics will save you hours.