Pianophilia

Dear Ferruccio, dear fleubis,

thank you for feedback!

Here is some „spare-time work“ (no moonlighting, though!) by BERTELIN

nms (alfor-edited)

I wonder why our French friends (no, not „fries“!) continue
to make that „sloppy“ scans!

This group of BERTELIN shows the composer in a more modest setting. While nowhere near the rather epic scale of the group of previous compositions, they are nonetheless well constructed and charming little salon type pieces.

And why such "sloppy scans"? I posit the usual reason: budgetary restraints. Maybe we need to start a Kickstarter campaign to get them better equipment/software.

Thank you, Alfred.

alfor wrote:I wonder why our French friends (no, not „fries“!) continue
to make that „sloppy“ scans!

Ah ah, I wonder why our German friends continue to download the sloppy scans instead of the perfect scans of Gallica !
Example: Lighter file, better resolution, isn't life beautiful.
OK, it's a little longer but who said we are in such an hurry!

Jean-Séb wrote:...Ah ah, I wonder why our German friends continue to download the sloppy scans instead of the perfect scans of Gallica !
Example:

Bertelin Lesquercarde high resolution.pdf

Lighter file, better resolution, isn't life beautiful.
OK, it's a little longer but who said we are in such an hurry!

...that is what friendship is about...

P.S. Would you mind giving us a high resolution copy of ANDRICO'S Sonatine op. 12?

One more BERTELIN (plus unidentified supplement).

nms (alfor-edited)

https://www.mediafire.com/?aa87xkqxwzhhanc

Much fun to be had with BERTELIN today, Alfred. The Au pays Romande is a charming set of pieces.

P.S. I can see you are wrestling with the same problem I am: Converting grayscale PDF's to black & white PDF's. So far I have not found an easy way to accomplish this as it does give a greatly reduced file size plus much greater readability.

fleubis wrote:Much fun to be had with BERTELIN today, Alfred. The Au pays Romande is a charming set of pieces.

P.S. I can see you are wrestling with the same problem I am: Converting grayscale PDF's to black & white PDF's. So far I have not found an easy way to accomplish this as it does give a greatly reduced file size plus much greater readability.

Here's a quick attempt at this conversion...

Parag

Much better, parag!

17.7 MB grayscale
5.4 MB b&w

Greatly improved readability.
Thank you!

alfor wrote:Would you mind giving us a high resolution copy of ANDRICO'S Sonatine op. 12?

Your wish is my command. I put my attempt in the appropriate file, but I guess Parag's powers are even better.

Perhaps I should post this in another forum but I'll mention this here for now (perhaps Fred can move it to an appropriate forum in a few days).

Irfanview works quite well for most scores (Rob is the local guru, ask him)... I have used it with mixed results (due to my ignorance).

Some scores need so much detailed work, I actually use MS Paint and clean up at the pixel level.

Here's a quick and generally reliable approach: extract each page as a tiff file first (I use Acrobat pro).
Use the MS Office Picture manager on these tiff files... click autocorrect first, then click edit and go under brightness and contrast settings... change the midtone levels only. Once you have eliminated all the "gray" you want to get rid of, click autobrightness.

After a while, you'll get pretty decent results. of course, this is simplistic, some scores need a little more tweaking, cropping etc.

Give it a shot and let me know.

Best,
Parag