Plain Lab · notebook
Wide-Stave Music Notebook
Five-line staves at 3.53 mm, wider than a standard printed stave, forty-nine rows 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
- 3.53 mm · 10.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 49
A standard printed stave is sized for a hand that already knows where a note sits without looking. A beginner's pencil is wider than that gap allows, and a child's is wider still, so the note ends up guessed at rather than placed.
Here the five lines of the stave sit 3.53 millimetres apart, wider than a standard printed stave, with forty-nine rows fitting down the page at that spacing. The extra room is for the note head itself, drawn by a hand still working out where it actually goes.
It is not sized for a professional copyist's hand, and it was never meant to be.
What is inside
- Wide staves
- 110pp
- Five-line staves at 3.53 mm, wider than a standard printed stave, forty-nine rows to the page.
- Reference
- 10pp
- Owner page, conversion tables computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two independent sources.
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
- Manuscript NotebookA finer pitch3.53 mm to 2.47 mm
Questions
How wide is the stave?
3.53 mm between the five lines, wider than a standard printed stave.
How many rows fit on a page?
Forty-nine.
Who is the extra width for?
A beginner or a child whose pencil is wider than the gap on a standard printed stave allows.
Is there a standard-width option?
Yes, the Manuscript Notebook, at 2.47 mm.
Is it dated?
No, so it starts at the first lesson.
There was never yet such a storm but it was Æolian music to a healthy and innocent ear.
