Re: Manual engraving video

[Werner LEMBERG]

> "Cesar Penagos" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I wan to  advice  you that is an excellent video of the art of manual
> > engraving in You Toube; you have to take a look of this excellent work.
> > You can see it, at:
> >   http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q8adEIMzbso
> 
> Impressive!

Here the German version, with a much better resolution:

  http://www.henle.de/video/vollversion/Notenstich_D.wmv

> But did I miss something important?  As far as I could see, the
> plate is engraved according to a fixed layout and spacing and I've
> always understood that to print nice sheet music you have to make a
> number of slight corrections to please the eye and ease the reading.

It's up to the engraver to do the corrections.  The `circle' is just
use to estimate the proportions.  The final optical corrections are
done directly during the engraving process.


    Werner