Plain Lab · notebook
Manuscript Notebook
A5 music manuscript paper, five-line staves at 2.47 millimetres, seventy lines to the page.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 120
- Leaves
- 60
- Sheets
- 30
- Signatures
- 6 × 20pp
- Spine
- 6.86 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- music
- Ruling pitch
- 2.47 mm · 7.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 70
Five lines, repeated: that is what a stave is, and everything written for it depends on the distance between one line and the next holding steady. At 2.47 millimetres, seventy lines fit the page before the margin closes it off, gathered five at a time into the staves themselves.
One hundred ten pages carry that ruling, the larger part of the book, behind a single divider. A shorter run of plain lined pages follows for lyrics, a fingering note, or anything else that does not sit on a stave.
The staves do not compose anything. They wait, evenly spaced, for whatever gets put on them, and a page left blank at the end of the week is exactly as ruled as one that is full.
What is inside
- Staves
- 110pp
- Five-line staves at 2.47 mm, spaced the same from the first page to the last.
- Reference
- 10pp
- Conversion tables computed from definitions, and the pen test leaf.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Wide-Stave Music NotebookA coarser pitch3.53 mm to 2.47 mm
Questions
What is the stave pitch?
2.47 millimetres between one line and the next, five lines to a stave.
How many lines fit a page?
Seventy, before the margin.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 120 pages, 6.86 mm across the spine.
Is there space for lyrics or chord names?
A run of plain lined pages sits at the back for anything that does not belong on a stave.
Is it dated?
No.
Our music, our poetry, our language itself are not satisfactions, but suggestions.
