On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold@arnoldarts.de> wrote:

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:39:45 -0700 Bob van der Poel <bob@mellowood.ca>
wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> > There only is one thing we can share all over the world, recorded in
> > different decades: analog tapes
>
> ​Well, not quite. Sheet music is quite playable after many centuries.
> And no special machines are needed :)​

I think the people and orchestras hunting down historic instruments to
recreate the original setting for certain pieces will disagree with you
on this one.

​Well, I did say this with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek while transcribing some Haydn. But, despite t​he fact that my little group will be playing it with totally different instruments, etc. ... I'm sure that Papa would recognize his tune. My point is that a piece of paper is very "archival" ... a piece of tape or a shiny plastic disk in 100 or 200 years?