Used to be guys from here drove the 120 miles to Toronto and you got the thing in a book store in a plain brown wrapper. They had to start somewhere. If I stack up my music books in one pile the ceiling would not be high enough. I'm not suggesting I'm a prude, but, if I am playing it I have it in a legit book. And the rooms I play pay Socan fees. So if it's in band in a box, it's the chords only, and I have the original. The only time the melody is there is so I can transpose it to Basso Profundo. I then print it, note the book and page it's on in my music book collection, and go from there.

As for the people who bought the book, you have to start somewhere. I won't throw stones.

I'm happy with my method, and not prepared to pass judgment on anyone else....

Now that I'm retired music is 80 percent of my life...I think the other 20 percent is taking pills and going to the doctor LOL.
Amazon just dropped off the latest CD, the very best of Vera Lynn. Took 6 weeks to get it. That ought to occupy me for a while. I bet $100 I end up at the piano playing along to White Cliffs of Dover...

John Conley
Musica est vita