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A Tale of Cover Stock
Developing the first four publications with Horn Notes Edition we looked over a lot of other publications and had a sense of what we wanted it to look like. In particular my wife and I both really liked the cover stock used by Birdalone Music in their Mozart concerto publications. These were printed some years back and that exact paper does not seem to be available today. Which is OK, we did not want the same thing, just something similar.
The first cover stock I picked out was similar but lighter in color. Reactions to that were negative, it looked too close to regular white cover stock like you might use at a neighborhood photocopy store and we wanted something on the next level up. This led us into a “paper quest” where we have learned a lot about paper! We narrowed it down to three different cover stocks, any of which we had to order in large quantity (enough for 3,000 books!), but we thought it to be worth it in terms of the final product.
And check out the Birdalone Mozart publications, I love their versions of the K 494a concerto in E and the Concert Rondo in particular.
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