Help, I'm at my wit's end (and it wasn't a far journey!). Can anyone give me a clue as to whether this music is a copy or a valid original score set that's legal to resell? I took four pictures of one of the pages and attached them here as follows: A full picture of one page The top half The bottom half and a closeup of an odd note in the lower-right hand corner that appears on every page for each instrument part in this score set. It's a 1936 score for a Chamber Music Quintet/Quartet that I picked up from a late Conductor's estate along with several other orchestral scores. This concerns me due to its handwritten music notes on the staffs and a lack of any cover enclosure showing a formal publishing source. I was in my high school band and orchestra decades ago – I'm old! – and I recall our Band Director had several scores that looked like this one: hand-written even though the school was purchasing the music through a reliable source. I suspect that hand-written nature back in the 1930s is not a problem, maybe all music wasn't published using a typeset kind of music printing back then. My concern is the overall worry of, "Is this a copy?" Do original, legal-to-sell vintage scores look like this, hand-written even though it was published to sell? And should I be concerned about that Rochester copy note in the lower-right hand corners of each page? That note seems odd that it is printed on each page, as a valid publisher might do, and yet it mentions PHOTO COPY among other things. Yet, if older small-run music publishers produced scores like this, they very well could have hired a professional copy service to make many of these oversized score pages from the original that they could legally sell if they owned the rights at the time to sell it. Obviously, my biggest concern is never ever wanting to sell something not legitimate on eBay. Thanks a bunch for any help or guidance you can give. Sincerely offered, Greg Perry
