That's pretty clever of you to figure out all those steps - I'm curious to know if you entered all the notation by hand or if you scanned it and used an OCR-like process to upload the score into Finale. And was the time you took to do all that worth $5? Someday, I trust you'll not be a Poor, Starving Liberal Arts Student, and you'll end up coming to a different conclusion to that calculation, I hope.

Ever since a summer trip to Scotland in 1980 I've been in possession of a musty copy of Volume IV of Scots Minstrelsie. I can't tell when it was published - it doesn't strike me as an original edition (it has none of the pictures shown in the Electric Scotland scans) - though it seems very old. It was given to me by a fellow in Glasgow in gratitude for my helping him work out an issue that had been bothering for a long time. I never felt I deserved it, but he wouldn't let me refuse it. I don't play or sing from it - the music doesn't interest me all that much - yet somehow it ended up being my only souvenir from the six weeks I spent in England and Scotland that summer, so I hang on to it. Someday maybe I'll pass it on to a folk band who'll put it to good use.

Regards,
Rex.