Can anyone recomend a manufacturer good quality manuscript large enough for orchestral arrangements. I've been using sibelius but theres somthing about composing with pencil and paper.
andy

Some people recommended paper on this thread. Not sure if it will meet your requirements.

http://www.abrsm.org/forum/index.php?showt...anuscript+paper

I see Panopus are no longer - they are the ones I used to use at school/university (back in the 80s) - the only reference to large orchestral manuscript paper I can find now is this:
http://www.chappellofbondstreet.co.uk/P~CO...rtrait+30+Stave

Novello used to do an A3 pad.

As do Faber and Faber

I found it on-sale online Here although I'm sure other retailers will sell it too.

You don't say how many staves you need. I had A3 ms, 24 staves, printed years ago (double sheets, i.e. 4 x A3 sides) specially for compiling unbarred scores. It has a non-reproducing pale blue horizontal and vertical grid. Reduces very legibly to A4. Also had well spaced A4 12-stave printed when I couldn't find any to buy. Not sure how loudly I'm allowed to blow my own trumpet, so PM or email me if you're interested.

I make my own. It only takes a second. You can have whatever size and colours you want, and whatever quality paper too.

I found the A3 Landscape pads allowed me to block out score for most combinations of instruments. If I needed to block out a line for more space then I could glue a fillet of paper in along that line.

With access to a guillotine and a neat hand I could adapt this paper for most things I wanted.

All I then needed were a couple of good drafting pens, a pencil, a ruler an eraser and some decent ideas.

Dry lettering just added the finishing touches.

On another note, does anyone know where you can buy loose sheets of A4 manuscript paper? You used to be able to buy a ream of it, but not it all comes in very expensive pads with pretty tulips on the cover

Maybe you've already discounted this as an option but you can print out your own. Searching for 'Blank Music Sheets' will come up with a good, free, selection.

My choice is Blank Music Sheet

Hope this might be helpful, either to you or anyone else.

Great - many thanks, AroundAgain!

You're very welcome
So pleased the suggestion was helpful

That's very sweeping! For a start, my experience is that nothing involving a computer ever "only takes a second".

I expect a lot of us have some sort of A4 black and white printer, and if you only want to work in pencil neither the print quality nor the paper quality will be particularly important, but Andrew was talking about good quality large ms paper so he would need an A3 printer with all its associated running costs and a source of good quality paper (not often available in quantities less than a ream - 500 sheets).