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  • Binding Ledger Size (11x17) Scores

    Hello!  

        Does anybody have any suggestions for getting 11x17 scores bound?  I live in New York City in the United States, and have tried several of our main retail copy centers with no luck.  Everybody says the same thing - "I'm sorry, but we don't bind 11x17.  We could only bind the top."  Obviously for a conductor, top binding on a score simply won't work!

        So what are everybody's suggestions?  Has anyone had any luck with a certain company that actually DOES bind scores of that size?  Does anybody do spiral binding themselves?  I'm absolutely stuck!


  • Heya,

    If i remember good on the beat kaufman website you can find some score bound model i don't remember wich ones exactly but you should look, maybe will you be lucky.

    Cheers Gilles


  • I'm not sure exactly what you are using it for, but have you thought about old-fashioned tape binding?  If done right and you use high-quality artist tape, it will be beautiful.  We still do this for scores in Hollywood - pages lie flat, turn easily and don't fall apart.  Another option would be comb-binding.  You can buy a good manual comb binding machine for a few hundred dollars.  Sounds expensive, but will pay for itself if you have several scores and will last a lifetime.


  • It is possible to spiral-bind 11" x 17" with the plastic piece for an 8.5" x 14" (legal size)  binding keeping the same original size.  It holds the pages mainly in the middle but works all right.   I had that done at a copy place, but it was a few years ago.  The alternative if they are now refusing to do that is to reduce to legal size.  I did that also, and the format reduction works fairly well.  Not a good alternative I know. 


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