@navindra I used to tape my scores together as well. I had a very elaborate system. I copied the scores onto 11x17 sized paper so that I could have two pages on one sheet, then I used a blank sheet of 11x17 as a backing sheet and staggered the pages. So say you had a four-page score. I would copy it onto two 11x17 sheets, then using double sided tape, tape the left side of the backing sheet to the back of page 2 and the right side of the backing sheet to the back of page 3. Pages 1 and 4 don’t have a backing sheet behind them. With this method, you can also fold the pages and it folds and opens very nicely, and having the backing sheet gives the pages a little more thickness so it sits on the music deck very nicely as well. This method can scale to any number of pages, and if you have an uneven number of pages, you can just tape the last page onto the backing page so that it still is taped together with the rest of the score (and that prevents it from sliding off the music desk).
However, this process (copying and prepping the whole thing) is actually rather time consuming and as my pieces got longer, it started to become a serious pain in the rear. Also, some pieces are so long that even this system requires page turns., although with this system, I could always get it down to only one or two page turns, as opposed to many page turns.
But still… All the pieces I’m working on right now are 5-7 pages. And then there was the time I played this piece:
Oltremare by Einaudi. 12 pages.
I now use the iPad and Bluetooth page turner pretty much exclusively.
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