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eStand[TM] Electronic Music Stand.

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Stand-alone electronic score display device, available in several models. $4,500-$12,000 list price, eStand, Inc., Skokie, Ill. http://www.estand.com.

For the past year eStand, Inc. has been marketing an innovation with the potential to reshape our use of music notation in performance. Although eStand's Electronic Music Stand[TM] was nine years in the making and is lauded by some of the world's leading musicians, many remain skeptical as to its benefits over paper. Inventor David Sitrick's company is fighting hard to increase its consumer base within the music world, but even with testimonials by Itzhak Perlman and John Williams, and field tests at institutions such as Northwestern University, progress has been slow.

To display the music on computer screens built into electronic music stands, eStand handles several file formats, including PDF, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and Finale. The typical eStand can store up to twenty thousand pages of music, and additional memory can be purchased to increase capacity. The unit is manipulated primarily by a touch screen that allows the user to select music, eliminate margins, show or hide menus, turn pages, and mark changes. A stylus is used for marking the digital parts in a variety of colors and line widths, eliminating the need for different pencils, markers, and highlighters. Marks can be saved, edited, erased, and distributed among players, a function that the manufacturer publicizes as the machine's greatest time-saving benefit. The system can be set up to allow principal players to mark their sections' parts, yet not allow the back row...

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